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Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television : Pencak Silat, Mediation, and Mediatization.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Keilbart, Patrick.
Contributor:
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
Series:
Modern Southeast Asia.
Modern Southeast Asia
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Martial arts films--Indonesia.
Martial arts films.
Pencak silat--Indonesia.
Pencak silat.
Indonesia.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (365 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Distribution:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
Place of Publication:
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021.
Summary:
This study examines the Indonesian martial arts pencak silat as media practices. The author delineates embodied and disembodied media practices to analyze the dynamics of mediatization in pencak silat and Indonesian society at large.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Martial Arts, Media, and Modernities
"New Media" and a New Media Paradigm?
Outline: Pencak Silat, Mediation, and Mediatization
Notes
Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework: Martial Arts and/as Media
Mediation and Media as Practice
Martial Arts Embodiment and the Body as Medium
Martial Arts and/as Media-Pencak Silat and (Dis-)embodied Media Practices
Chapter 2: Methodology: Apprenticeship and Media Engagement
Intermediality and the Construction of Martial Arts and/as Media
Apprenticeship and Performance Ethnography: Becoming a Pesilat
Screen Culture and Media Engagement
Mediated and Immediate Situated Learning in Pencak Silat
Chapter 3: Pencak Silat Merentang Waktu: A Historical Perspective
Martial Arts, War Magic, and Warrior Religion in the Indonesian Archipelago
Invention of Pencak Silat as Traditional Martial Art and National Sport
Conclusions: Changes and Continuities in Martial Arts
Chapter 4: Mediating Pencak Silat: Pencak Silat as Medium
Merpati Putih: Mediating (Post-)secular "Tenaga Dalam" (Inner Power)
Sang Cipta Rasa: Empowering Debus (Warrior Religion) from the Keraton
Comparison: Multiple Pencak Silat Modernities, One (Pencak) Silat?
Chapter 5: Pencak Silat and (Dis-)embodied Media Practices
Pencak Silat and/in Indonesian Television
Pencak Silat Film-From Silat Stories to Star Wars
Tracing Out Entangled Pencak Silat Media Cultures
Chapter 6: Pencak Silat (Media) Events: Fictions of Collective Life?
Pencak Silat Events-Identity Management, Ritual, and Communitas
Pencak Silat Media Events?
(Inter-)national Pencak Silat Championships: Performing the Nation.
Jambore Pencak Malioboro: Performance and/of Cooperation without Consensus
Conclusions: Fictions of Collective Life, Communitas, and Indigenous Media Events
Conclusion: Pencak Silat Mediation and Mediatization
Glossary
Bibliography
Filmography:
Index
About the Author.
ISBN:
1-66699-536-3
1-9787-9567-X
1-7936-2716-9
OCLC:
1257666848

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