Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema / by Alicia Izharuddin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Izharuddin, Alicia, Author.

Series:

Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia, 2662-7892

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Motion pictures.

Television broadcasting.

Islam.

Gender Studies.

Film and Television Studies.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Film and Television Studies.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 207 p. 3 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian film industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of women filmmakers in the post-New Order period. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. Examining key themes such as nationalism, women's rights, polygamy, and terrorism which have preoccupied local filmmakers for decades, it 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, and addresses the specific issue of Anglo-European born Muslim women who are being radicalized by Daish social media, through the analysis of films such as 'Mata Tertutup' (Closed Eyes) about a young woman's transformation into a suicide bomber. Offering cutting edge accounts of the use of Islamic cinema and mass media, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media usage which further enrich the representations of the 'religious' and the 'Islamic' in the everyday lives of Muslims in South East Asia.

Contents:

Gender and the divine pleasures of the cinema

Dakwah at the cinema: identifying the generic parameters of Islamic films

Visualising Muslim women and men: a longue durée

Gender, Islam and the nation in New Order Islamic films

Empowered Muslim femininities?: representations of women in post-New Order film Islami

Poor, polygamous but deeply pious: Muslim masculinities in post-New Order film Islami.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789811021732

9811021732