EAN: 9783319408736

CULTURAL SPECIFICITY IN INDONESIAN FILM - DAVID...

This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories
have been expressed in film since the early 1950s. It also explores underlying cultural
dominants within the new nation  established at the end of 1949 with the achievement of
independence from Dutch colonialism. It sees these dominants-for example forms of group body
language and forms of consultation-not simply as a product of the nation  but as related to
unique and long standing formations and traditions in the numerous societies in the Indonesian
archipelago  on which the nation is based. Nevertheless  the book is not concerned only with
past traditions  but explores ways in which Indonesian filmmakers have addressed  critically 
distinctive aspects of their traditional societies in their feature films (including at times
the social position of women)  linking past to the present  where relevant  in dynamic ways.

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