{"id":14282,"date":"2026-06-05T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.objectifs.com.sg\/product\/singapore-a-cinematic-portrait-by-raphael-millet\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:19:41","slug":"singapore-a-cinematic-portrait-by-raphael-millet","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.objectifs.com.sg\/product\/singapore-a-cinematic-portrait-by-raphael-millet\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore &#8211; A Cinematic Portrait by Rapha\u00ebl Millet"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-stripped\" style=\"height: 243px;\" width=\"640\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><b>BY<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Rapha\u00ebl Millet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><strong>YEAR<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><strong>DETAILS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">26cm x 22cm<br \/>\nPhotography &amp; Illustrations in Full Colour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><strong>PUBLISHED BY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\">Asian Film Archive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>About <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_36 wixui-rich-text__text\">Rapha\u00ebl Millet<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_36 wixui-rich-text__text\">Rapha\u00ebl Millet is a film scholar, writer, director and producer based between France and Singapore since 2002. Trained in political science and film studies in Paris, he has taught cinema, worked with France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions and the French National Centre of Cinema (CNC), and written widely on European, Middle Eastern and Asian cinemas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_36 wixui-rich-text__text\">A specialist on Singapore cinema, he is the author of\u00a0<em>Le Cin\u00e9ma de Singapour<\/em>\u00a0(2003) and\u00a0<em>Singapore Cinema\u00a0<\/em>(2006), and a contributor to\u00a0<em>Positif<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Trafic<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Les Cahiers du cin\u00e9ma<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>BiblioAsia<\/em>. In 2005, he co-created Screen Singapore, the first major retrospective of the nation\u2019s cinema, and has advised institutions including the Centre Pompidou.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_36 wixui-rich-text__text\">As a documentary filmmaker, his work explores cinema history and culture. His Singapore-related films\u2014<em>Gaston M\u00e9li\u00e8s and His Wandering Star Film Company<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Chaplin in Bali<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Capitol of Singapore<\/em>\u2014are held in the Asian Film Archive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_36 wixui-rich-text__text\"><em><strong>Singapore: A Cinematic Portrait\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_36 wixui-rich-text__text\">traces how the island has been seen, imagined, and reinvented on screen\u2014from early colonial newsreels to contemporary cinema. 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Since the 1990s, currents of nostalgia and melancholy have reflected the tensions of rapid change, memory, and erasure\u2014capturing a city continually lived, lost, and reimagined through film.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\">\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14294,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[179,188,180,411],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-14282","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","product_cat-film-publications","product_cat-new-arrivals","product_cat-titles-from-singapore","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","ast-product-gallery-layout-horizontal-slider","ast-product-gallery-with-no-image","ast-product-tabs-layout-horizontal","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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