[Commlist] New Book: Indonesian Cinema After the New Order

New book:

*Indonesian Cinema After the New Order: Going Mainstream (HKU Press, 
2019) by Thomas Barker*

https://hkupress.hku.hk/pro/1728.php

Until Nov 30, 2019 you can use the discount code *RAOC19* for 30% off 
the RRP.

In /Indonesian Cinema after the New Order: Going Mainstream/, Thomas 
Barker presents the first systematic and most comprehensive history of 
contemporary Indonesian cinema. The book focuses on a 20-year period of 
great upheaval from modest, indie beginnings, through mainstream appeal, 
to international recognition. More than a simple narrative, Barker 
contributes to cultural studies and sociological research by defining 
the three stages of an industry moving from state administration; 
through needing to succeed in local pop culture, specifically succeeding 
with Indonesian youth, to remain financially viable; until it finally 
realizes international recognition as an art form. This “going 
mainstream” paradigm reaches far beyond film history and forms a 
methodology for understanding the market in which all cultural 
industries operate, where the citizen-consumer (not the state) becomes 
sovereign.

Indonesia presents a particularly interesting case because “going 
mainstream” has increasingly meant catering to the demands of new 
Islamic piety movements. It has also meant working with a new Ministry 
of Tourism and Creative Economy, established in 2011. Rather than a 
simplified creative world many hoped for, Indonesian filmmaking now 
navigates a new complex of challenges different to those faced before 
1998. Barker sees this industry as a microcosm of the entire country: 
democratic yet burdened by authoritarian legacies, creative yet 
culturally contested, international yet domestically shaped.


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