Film Islami

Gender, Piety and Pop Culture in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID12349159
AuthorsJames B Hoesterey (Emory University), Marshall Clark (0000-0001-5827-4862, b Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume36
Issue2
Pages207-226
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357823.2012.685925
OpenAlexW2066156967
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited41

Popular culture has become an important arena through which Muslims in contemporary Indonesia constitute and contest ideas about Islam, piety and gender. Despite the broad understandings of gender that are now commonplace in the West, scholarship on gender in Indonesia has tended to focus overwhelmingly on the status of women. This article aims to redress this scholarly lacuna by examining, among other things, representations of men and masculinities in recent Indonesian popular culture, primarily focusing on the burgeoning trend of “pop Islam” films, most commonly known as film Islami . We argue that the popularity – and controversy – associated with film Islami is closely related to the increasing Islamisation of Indonesian society and politics and the emergence of new understandings of what Muslim masculinity should and can be in contemporary Indonesia

Authoritarianism · CONTEST · Democracy · Indonesian · Islam · Masculinity · Media studies · Piety · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Popularity · Redress · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Gender and Women's Rights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships

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