Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema

Overview

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.

Key Themes

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.

Broader Debates

The text also sheds light on broader debates and questions about contemporary Islam and gender construction in contemporary Indonesia.

Islamic Cinema and Gender

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.