Cinema CaseEssay Preview: Cinema CaseReport this essayOne of the buildings that has been chosen as a Malaysian National Heritage is the Cinema, Panggung Wayang as it needs to be considered as part of our national heritage, preserving its cultural heritage and keeping it alive for future generations. Panggung Wayang was erected as early as the 1920s by colonial architects, blending in with the times cape of parks, the Bangsawan and the Chinese Opera. The Malaysian films capes were first exposed to colonial ideologies (in the 1900s) and cultures of the Indians, Chinese and Indonesians between the 1920s to the 1960s. A rich mixture of varied metamorphosis sped it into the Films Golden Era in the 1960s into what is the Malaysian film industry today.
Cinema CaseEssay Preview: Cinema CaseReport this essayThe main concept of the building is that the Cinemas will showcase the best pictures and videos through a theatre, a cinema. It is intended that the Cinemas will allow audiences to experience the history of the world through a theatre, and so they are meant to celebrate all the experiences of the past with their present audience and their relatives. But unlike the Cinema Case, the Cinemas were designed to be used as a means to provide a historical lesson in a place where many of our most valuable and beautiful pictures have been kept out of the public eye ever since. The Cinemas will also be able to make it the first cinema to take these pictures, as part of a historical event to mark the birth of the national cinema. It is an incredible idea, but it is not really what is necessary for the Cinemas to take their name from. A little history of our country should be enough to allow the government to give the Cinemas a place here in Malaysia. A brief history of our own history can be enough to give us a glimpse into a country that still sees us as people but still sees us for what we are all. We have an even better chance of becoming Malaysia as a whole and we need cinema, a good Cinemas should offer that much better experience to our community. It can be done.
“A Film Hall”, a series of galleries, which serve as centres for film culture and a cinema, are planned. In 2013, in collaboration with the Malaysian Government, they will connect cinemas around Kuala Lumpur to provide cinema experience at a new theatre on the outskirts of Panggung Wayang. The intention is to allow the community to learn about and enjoy the cinema. To be started. The project has been conceived in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism, Kedang Panggung and the Kedang Film Industry Association which is based in the city. The concept of the cinema in Kuala Lumpur is to provide a theatre for the community to participate in art exhibitions, play dates, concerts, films and community events in the community on the main roads in Panggung Wayang. The Cinemas at the new Theatre of Kedsang Panggung is a great place for art exhibitions to take place. It is one room with about 5.5m views of various historical works, with the surrounding hillsides that make up an ideal location for artists to show their work and bring home the film footage that is available on the gallery galleries. An interesting feature of today’s theater has been the use of small screens. The local audience of cinemas in Panggung Wayang can enjoy a limited and open theater. An alternative, to the small screens, is offered as well but the main idea is to give the community something to be curious about and to look forward to.
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Cinema CaseEssay Preview: Cinema CaseReport this essayThe main concept of the building is that the Cinemas will showcase the best pictures and videos through a theatre, a cinema. It is intended that the Cinemas will allow audiences to experience the history of the world through a theatre, and so they are meant to celebrate all the experiences of the past with their present audience and their relatives. But unlike the Cinema Case, the Cinemas were designed to be used as a means to provide a historical lesson in a place where many of our most valuable and beautiful pictures have been kept out of the public eye ever since. The Cinemas will also be able to make it the first cinema to take these pictures, as part of a historical event to mark the birth of the national cinema. It is an incredible idea, but it is not really what is necessary for the Cinemas to take their name from. A little history of our country should be enough to allow the government to give the Cinemas a place here in Malaysia. A brief history of our own history can be enough to give us a glimpse into a country that still sees us as people but still sees us for what we are all. We have an even better chance of becoming Malaysia as a whole and we need cinema, a good Cinemas should offer that much better experience to our community. It can be done.
“A Film Hall”, a series of galleries, which serve as centres for film culture and a cinema, are planned. In 2013, in collaboration with the Malaysian Government, they will connect cinemas around Kuala Lumpur to provide cinema experience at a new theatre on the outskirts of Panggung Wayang. The intention is to allow the community to learn about and enjoy the cinema. To be started. The project has been conceived in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism, Kedang Panggung and the Kedang Film Industry Association which is based in the city. The concept of the cinema in Kuala Lumpur is to provide a theatre for the community to participate in art exhibitions, play dates, concerts, films and community events in the community on the main roads in Panggung Wayang. The Cinemas at the new Theatre of Kedsang Panggung is a great place for art exhibitions to take place. It is one room with about 5.5m views of various historical works, with the surrounding hillsides that make up an ideal location for artists to show their work and bring home the film footage that is available on the gallery galleries. An interesting feature of today’s theater has been the use of small screens. The local audience of cinemas in Panggung Wayang can enjoy a limited and open theater. An alternative, to the small screens, is offered as well but the main idea is to give the community something to be curious about and to look forward to.
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The reason that why Panggung Wayang should be consider as a Malaysian National Heritage is because it is envisaged that the Panggung Wayang can be proven to be a tangible past or present national heritage that unifies the intangible such as film that viewing with past or present unification of race and culture and perhaps its potential as an educational tourism attraction. Films were made from Chinese money, Indian directors and Malay casts with Bahasa Melayu as the main language. Stevenson (1974: 219) had suggests that apart from the racecourse, “the cinema was the only place in colonial Malaya where all races and classes freely congregated”.
Moreover, in the 1950s there were more than 160 theatres throughout Malaya and Singapore. The attorney general at that point in time saw Panggung Wayang as the most universal means through which national ideas and national atmosphere can be spread. Somehow, the physical Panggung Wayang have become a meeting point of national lingual, racial and social atmosphere, screening lives of those outside the screen, onto the screen itself.
Nonetheless there were pleas made by certain sects to Love Malaysian Films as the industry faces an influx of films of the west, the rise of independent filmmakers with seemingly low national content, limiting screening for local films and its production. The rise of digital multiplexes fulfills the current demands of cinemagoers but it too depletes a sense of unity as has been described in the paragraph above. In a society obsessed with youth too, old buildings are often regarded as relics that no longer serve a purpose. The Panggung Wayang of today despite its historical value has been converted into furniture shops, abandoned and demolished. These historical monuments have somewhat being stripped of its dignity, literally (Hooi You Ching, 2008). In such an instance, a research on its tangible and intangible values needs to be documented and presented.
Overall, the Panggung Wayang is a history with a sense of unity in identity that must be preserved as challenges of cultural sovereignty, cultural imperialism and heterogeneous cross-cultural identities becomes central in Malaysia today.