Cultures at war in Cold War Southeast Asia : an introduction / Tony Day -- Filming Philippine modernity during the Cold War : the case of Lamberto Avellana / Francisco Benitez -- Modem drama, politics, and the postcolonial aesthetics of left-nationalism in North Sumatra : the forgotten theater of Indonesia's Lekra, 1955-65 / Michael Bodden -- Saigonese art during the war : modernity versus ideology / Boitran Huynh-Beattie -- Cold War rhetoric and the body : physical cultures in early socialist Laos / Simon Creak -- Still stuck in the mud : imagining world literature during the Cold War in Indonesia and Vietnam / Tony Day -- Raising xenophobic socialism against a Communist threat : re-reading the lines of an army propaganda magazine in 1950s Burma / Bo Bo -- The man with the golden gauntlets : Mit Chaibancha's Insi thorng and the hybridization of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War action cinema / Rachel V. Harrison -- Festival politics : Singapore's 1963 South-East Asia Cultural Festival / Jennifer Lindsay -- Filling in the gaps of history : independent documentaries re-present the Malayan left / Gaik Cheng Khoo -- Recalling and representing Cold War conflict and its aftermath in contemporary Indonesian film and theatre / Barbara Hatley.