Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema: Constructing Gay, Lesbi and Waria Identities on Screen

ISBN-13: 9780415536318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 202 str.

Ben Murtagh

Opis

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. It explores why transgendered characters are so often portrayed in Indonesian films and why such characters are popular with the Indonesian public.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.