2006
DOI: 10.5367/000000006778008103
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Istana Kecantikan:The First IndonesianGayMovie

Abstract: This article discusses the first Indonesian film to deal with specifically gay rather than waria (male to female transvestites) subjectivities. The 1980s was a period that saw growing public consciousness of the gay subject position, and the release of this film in 1988 may be seen as the first cinematic attempt to react to this new level of awareness. For this reason, it can be argued that the film says as much about Indonesian perceptions of the gay world as it does about the reality of life as a gay man in … Show more

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“…;Setiyawan, 2009). Significantly, Kuldesak featured a gay character, even though the film was often criticized for its negative and pessimistic portrayal (Murtagh, 2006(Murtagh, , 2010(Murtagh, , 2011Djuhari, 2004, Asmarani, 2004. Furthermore, two of the four directors were women thereby lighting a new path for others to follow and contesting the male domination of the industry.…”
Section: Representations Of Women-who-love-women In Indonesian Cinemamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…;Setiyawan, 2009). Significantly, Kuldesak featured a gay character, even though the film was often criticized for its negative and pessimistic portrayal (Murtagh, 2006(Murtagh, , 2010(Murtagh, , 2011Djuhari, 2004, Asmarani, 2004. Furthermore, two of the four directors were women thereby lighting a new path for others to follow and contesting the male domination of the industry.…”
Section: Representations Of Women-who-love-women In Indonesian Cinemamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, two of the four directors were women thereby lighting a new path for others to follow and contesting the male domination of the industry. Since then, academic writing emphasizes on the increased portrayal of gay and lesbian characters (Murtagh, 2006(Murtagh, , 2010(Murtagh, , 2011Widjaya, 2007;Maimunah, 2008a;Coppens, 2009) and the changing representation of women in Indonesian cinema (Hughes-Freeland, op. cit.…”
Section: Representations Of Women-who-love-women In Indonesian Cinemamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the context of this short paper, we can only hope to offer the most partial of overviews of these diverse forms of sexual narrative production. From the fields of film and literature studies, Rachel Harrison’s work on Thai heterosexualities (Harrison 2004) and Ben Murtagh’s work on Indonesian gay and lesbi sexualities (Murtagh 2006) both reveal much about the contexts in which modern Asian sexualities are being both (re)produced and consumed in popular literature and film. Hoad et al.…”
Section: Speaking From ‘The West’: Re‐positioning Sexual Geographies/mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A specific study of Wahyu Sihombing's Istana Kecantikan (The Palace of Beauty, 1988), undertaken by Ben Murtagh (2006) is perhaps the only existing journal article that examines the representation of a male samesex relationship in Indonesian cinema. Murtagh argues that despite the film's unsympathetic ending, in which the gay character is imprisoned after accidentally killing his former lover, Istana Kecantikan is not as homophobic as other observers have suggested.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%