Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema

In: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia

Abstract

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Gender and the Divine Pleasures of the Cinema -- Why Representations of Gender in Film? -- Commodification of Islam and Gender in Islamic Modernity -- Ways of Making Meaning -- Notes on the Field Site -- Interviewing Indonesia´s Cultural Elite -- Positionality -- Outline of Chapters -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 2: Dakwah at the Cinema: Identifying the Generic Parameters of Islamic Films -- Between the Purity of Dakwah and Market Forces -- Film Islami as a Genre -- Making Films the `Islamic´ Way -- Obstacles and Censorship -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 3: Visualising Muslim Women and Men: A Longue Durée -- Gender as a Product of State Ideology and Censorship -- Stirring Slowly from Passivity: Femininity in Indonesian Cinema -- `The Film Industry Is Masculine´: Masculinities in Indonesian Cinema -- Gender Through an Islamic Cinematic Lens -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 4: Gender, Islam, and the Nation in New Order Islamic Films -- The Men in White: Mystics and a Revolutionary Prince -- Islamic Masculinity and the Modern Indonesian Nation -- Woman as Mother of an Islamic Nation -- A Woman Driven to Apostasy: Female Emancipation as Political Emancipation -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only) -- Chapter 5: Empowered Muslim Femininities? Representations of Women in Post-New Order Film Islami -- Domestic Struggle as Spiritual Struggle -- Subverting Agency in Mata Tertutup -- Women Who Need Salvation: The Gender Politics of Interfaith Romance and Religious Conversion in Film Islami -- The Rise of the Islamic Film Star -- Bibliography -- Films Cited (Main Films Only)