Ben Murtagh

Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema

Constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen

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Produktbeschreibung

Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of transgender cultures, with many festivals and local rites involving members of transgender communities. This book examines how transgendered individuals and transgendered communities are represented in Indonesian film, both gay, lesbian and wari (male-to-female transgender) film and more general film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781138652231
• ISBN-10: 1138652237
• Artikelnr.: 44149332

Autorenporträt

Ben Murtagh is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian and Malay at SOAS, University of London and managing editor of the journal Indonesia and the Malay World.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Wadam, Waria and the Story of a Man who Became a Woman:
Non-normative Genders in the 1970s 3. The First Indonesian Gay Movie: Gay
men in the cinema of the 1980s 4. Lesbi in the Metropolis: Stories of sex
and salvation in Indonesian cinema of the 1990s 5. Modern Gay Men and Fear
of the Queer Unwanted: Positive images from the Reform Era 6. Old Concerns
in a New Era? Images of lesbi in the new millennium 7. A Proliferation of
Storylines: Alternative masculinities in mainstream cinema