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Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides the context behind the rise of Islamic popular culture in Indonesia and examines Islam in Indonesia in a globalising world
  • Offers a substantial review of specialist literature on Indonesian media and gender representation and makes a significant contribution to the still nascent literature on ‘Islamic’ cinema in Indonesia
  • Broadens the discussion on the status of Muslim women today - an issue that will generate interest beyond Indonesian Studies and Gender Studies
  • Addresses key issues of censorship, notably in regard to the government’s uneasiness regarding critical representations of Islam, politics, and history

Part of the book series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia (GSCA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Gender and the Divine Pleasures of the Cinema

    • Alicia Izharuddin
    Pages 1-29
  3. Afterword

    • Alicia Izharuddin
    Pages 181-186
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 187-207

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Alicia Izharuddin

About the author

Alicia Izharuddin is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, in Malaysia. She received her PhD in Gender Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, in 2014 and her research focuses on gender and sexuality in Malaysia and Indonesia from a feminist perspective.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema

  • Authors: Alicia Izharuddin

  • Series Title: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2173-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2172-5Published: 06 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9549-8Published: 07 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2173-2Published: 28 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2662-7884

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-7892

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 207

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Screen Studies, Islam

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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