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Like & Share: It’s Time to Not Be Subtle

Permata Adinda·22 November 2024

Looking for Blind Pigs in a Zoo: On Edwin’s Short Films

Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu·4 September 2021

National Superheroes Out of Work: Dealing with Indonesia’s Colonial Legacy through the Cinematic Superhero

Arnoud Arps·19 March 2021

Indonesian Film Culture in 1970s and 1980s Malaysia

Norman Yusoff·20 September 2019

Measuring the Heartbeat of Indonesian Film Industry

Agus Mediarta·20 August 2018

Beyond the Box office: On the Cultural Relevance of Indonesian Cinema

Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu·13 May 2018

Film Projectionist at the End of the Reel

Corry Elyda·27 April 2018

Power and Adaptation: Film Adaptations from Novels in 1950s Indonesia

Christopher Woodrich·23 November 2017

Propaganda Belongs to the People: Lab Laba Laba and Indonesia’s New Order Propaganda Films

Lauren Bliss·23 August 2017

Travels and Travails: Cosmopolitan Muslims in Indonesian Cinema

Thomas Barker·27 May 2017

When East Meets West: American and Chinese Influences on Early Indonesian Action Cinema

Bastian Meiresonne·2 May 2017

Solo, Solitude: On the Poetics of Politics

Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu·31 December 2016

Raping Aoi: Censorship Board and Adult Film Stars in Indonesian Horrors

Makbul Mubarak·21 December 2016

What is ‘Islamic’ about Islamic Films?

Alicia Izharuddin·15 November 2016

The Other Side of Indonesia: New Order’s Indonesian Exploitation Cinema as Cult Films

Ekky Imanjaya·30 April 2016

What It Means to Be Indonesian After Beatriz’s War

Windu Jusuf·7 April 2016

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