[PDF] Motherhood And National Identity In Post New Order Indonesian Cinema eBook

Author : Hapsari Dwiningtyas Sulistyani
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2005
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This thesis deals with the construction of women in Indonesian feature-length narrative films produced for distribution in cinemas between the fall of the New Order regime (the authoritarian regime that governed Indonesia from 1966 to 1998) in May 1998 and the beginning of 2004. The main question this thesis explores is: "how are female characters constructed as subjects in post-New Order Indonesian film texts?" In order to answer this research question the following three Indonesian films are examined, using narrative and textual analysis: Pasir Berbisik (Whispering Sand), Ada Apa Dengan Cinta (What's up with Love), and Kuldesak (Cul De Sac). In the process of the analysis, other relevant films are also referred to. The films are critically examined within the historical and political contexts pertaining to their production. In the Suharto (New Order) era, the way female characters were constructed in film texts was to some extent dictated by the regime's gender politics. This thesis is an attempt to explore changes in the representation of women after the fall of the New Order. Through analysis of the selected films, it is concluded that the way in the female characters are constructed demonstrates that while the films resist New Order ideologies in some ways, residual elements of those ideologies still linger to affect the representation of women in contemporary Indonesian film.

Author : Grace V. S. Chin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811070652

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This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women authors and artists, the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine are imagined, represented, and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book, which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations, also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, and the ways in which they affect women’s bodies, subjectivities, and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas, the collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies.

Author : Joel Gwynne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030400646

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Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity, and have usually explored cross generational romance in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women and younger men and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also to navigate the differences between socially acceptable love and transgressive desire. This collection focuses on the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships and addresses the often divisive relationship between the discourses of youth and ageing in popular culture.

Author : Alicia Izharuddin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811021732

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This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian film industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of Islamic popular culture. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. With key themes such as nationalism, women's rights, polygamy, and terrorism which have preoccupied local filmmakers for decades, Indonesia cinema resonates with the socio-political changes and upheavals in Indonesia’s modern history and projects images of the nation through the debates on gender and Islam. The text also sheds light on broader debates and questions about contemporary Islam and gender construction in contemporary Indonesia. Offering cutting edge accounts of the production of Islamic cinema, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media creation which further enrich the representations of the 'religious' and the 'Islamic' in the everyday lives of Muslims in South East Asia.

Author : Ariel Heryanto
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9971698218

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Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture critically examines what media and screen culture reveal about the ways urban-based Indonesians attempted to redefine their identity in the first decade of this century. Through a richly nuanced analysis of expressions and representations found in screen culture (cinema, television and social media), it analyses the waves of energy and optimism, and the disillusionment, disorientation and despair, that arose in the power vacuum that followed the dramatic collapse of the militaristic New Order government. While in-depth analyses of identity and political contestation within the nation are the focus of the book, trans-national engagements and global dimensions are a significant part of the story in each chapter. The author focuses on contemporary cultural politics in Indonesia, but each chapter contextualizes current circumstances by setting them within a broader historical perspective.

Author : Tilman Baumgärtel
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9888083600

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The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia, following the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers there, is among the most significant recent developments in global cinema. The advent of affordable and easy access to digital technology has empowered startling new voices from a part of the world rarely heard or seen in international film circles. The appearance of fresh, sharply alternative, and often very personal voices has had a tremendous impact on local film production. This book documents these developments as a genuine outcome of the democratization and liberalization of film production. Contributions from respected scholars, interviews with filmmakers, personal accounts and primary sources by important directors and screenwriters collectively provide readers with a lively account of dynamic film developments in Southeast Asia. Interviewees include Lav Diaz, Amir Muhammad, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Eric Khoo, Nia Dinata and others. Tilman Baumgärtel taught film and media studies in Germany, Austria and the Philippines before joining Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2009. He has curated international film series and art exhibitions, and has also published books on independent cinema, Internet art, computer games and the German director Harun Farocki. His blog can be found at http://southeastasiancinema.wordpress.com

Author : Karl G. Heider
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824813673

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A film-goer accustomed to the typical Hollywood movie plot would feel uneasy watching an Indonesian movie. Contrary to expectations, good guys do not win, bad guys are not punished, and individuals do not reach a new self-awareness. Instead, by the end of the movie order is restored, bad guys are converted, and families are reunited. Like American movies, Indonesian films reflect the understandings and concerns of the culture and era in which they are made. Thus Indonesian preoccupations with order and harmony, national unity, and modernization motivate the plots of many films. Cinema has not traditionally been within the purview of anthropologists, but Karl Heider demonstrates how Indonesian movies are profoundly Indonesian. Produced in the national language by Indonesians from various regions, the films are intended for audiences across the diverse archipelago. Heider examines these films to identify pan-Indonesian cultural patterns and to show how these cultural principles shape the movies and, sometimes, how the movies influence the culture. This anthropological approach to Indonesian film opens up the medium of Asian cinema to a new group of scholars. "Indonesian Cinema" should be of interest to social scientists, Asianists, film scholars, and anyone concerned with the role of popular culture in developing countries.

Author : Katinka van Heeren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004253475

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This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and alternative film practices, ceremonial and independent film festivals, film piracy, history and horror, documentary, television soaps, and Islamic films, as well as censorship from the state and street. Through the perspective of discourses on, and practices of film production, distribution, and exhibition, this book gives a detailed insight into current issues of Indonesia’s social and political situation, where Islam, secular realities, and ghosts on and off screen, mingle or clash.