Moments in Indonesian film history : Film and popular culture in a developing society 1950–2020

Author

• Hanan, David

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030726133

Series

Subject(s)

• MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
• MOTION PICTURES
• MOTION PICTURES--INDONESIA

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Abstract

This book explores Indonesian cinema, focusing on moments of unique creativity by Indonesian film artists who illuminate important but less-widely-known aspects of their multi-dimensional society. It begins by exploring early 1950s ‘Indonesian neorealist films'of the Perfini group, which depict the ethos and emerging moral issues of the period of struggle for independence (1945–49). It continues by discussing four audacious political allegories produced in four discrete political eras—including the Sukarno, Suharto and Reformasi periods. It also surveys the main approaches to Islam in both popular cinema and auteur films during the Suharto New Order. One chapter celebrates the popular songs and B-movies of the Betawi comedian, Benyamin S, which dramatize the experience of the poor in ‘modernizing'Jakarta. Another examines persisting Third World dimensions of Indonesian society as critiqued in two experimental features. The concluding chapter highlights innovation in a renewed Indonesian cinema of the post-Suharto Reformasi period (1999–2020), including films by an unprecedented generation of women writer-directors

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Number of Page(s)

1 online resource

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

1 Introduction
Filming the ‘Struggle for the Nation’, and Its Aftermath: Early Films of Usmar Ismail and the Perfini Company 1950–1954
A Tradition of Political Allegory and Political Satire in Indonesian Cinema 1955–2002
Approaches to Islam in the Indonesian Cinema 1970s–1990s
Songs and Films of the Betawi Comedian, Benyamin S, in the 1970s: A Popular Culture of the Poor
Third World Experimental Narrative in Indonesian Film: Travelling the Centre–Periphery Axis 1979–1985
New Perspectives, Challenges and Questions from Filmmakers in the Post-Suharto Reformasi Era 1998–2020

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1.	00103/22	791.4309598 Han M	Online !	Available