Screening Piety, Class, and Romance in Indonesia
Scenes from an Argument Already Well Underway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2904036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Fox (0000-0002-2541-5849, 1 University of Victoria Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 176 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-104 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-bja10003 |
| OpenAlex | W3012087933 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
The collapse of the New Order ushered in what many had hoped would be a new era of openness and transparency for Indonesia. The loosening of laws pertaining to broadcast and print publication gave rise to a proliferation of new media and cultural production. This had a profound effect on everything, from politics, religion, and the economy to popular conceptions of romantic intimacy and personal accomplishment. The question is whether prevailing approaches to media and popular culture are adequate to the task of accounting for these oft-cited transformations in Indonesian public life. Focusing on issues of piety, class, and romance, this article examines a sequence of films, pop songs, and YouTube parody videos to offer a presuppositional critique of the current scholarship. Its central contention is that closer attention to pop culture as a form of 'argument' offers an important corrective to the reifying tendencies of prevailing approaches
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Literature · Media studies · Openness to experience · Piety · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Romance · Scholarship · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Asian Studies and History · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Watching Si Doel
Desperately Seeking the Audience
Habermas and the public sphere
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia
Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema
Islamizing Intimacies
Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts
Back Door Java
Critical Reflections on Religion and Media in Contemporary Bali
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
Plus ça change…; Recent developments in old Javanese studies and their implications for the study of religion in contemporary Bali
Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia
The Deployment of the Prosperous Family
Discourse of cultural identity in Indonesia during the 1997-1998 monetary crisis
City and desire in Indonesian cinema
Indonesian youth looking towards the future
Youth transitions to urban, middle-class marriage in Indonesia
Vicissitudes of Vision
Transition into marriage in Greater Jakarta
Tele-ology
Identity and Pleasure
The New Muslim Romance
Envisioning the Nation
Substantial transmissions; A presuppositional analysis of 'the old Javanese text' as an object of knowledge, and its implications for the study of religion in Bali
Private Moralities in the Public Sphere
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |