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DR Ben Murtagh's Outputs (31)

Emergent queer identities in 20th century film from Southeast Asia (2022)
Book Chapter
Murtagh, B., & Pongpanit, A. (2022). Emergent queer identities in 20th century film from Southeast Asia. In S. Tang, & H. Y. Wijaya (Eds.), Queer Southeast Asia (83-102). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003320517-6

This chapter explores how filmmakers first engaged cinematically with a discourse on the proliferation of non-normative genders and sexualities in different parts of Southeast Asia in the second half of the twentieth century. In that era prior to the... Read More about Emergent queer identities in 20th century film from Southeast Asia.

‘There’s no place for us here’; imagining queer spaces in Indonesian cinema (2022)
Journal Article
Murtagh, B. (2022). ‘There’s no place for us here’; imagining queer spaces in Indonesian cinema. Indonesia and the Malay World, 50(146), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2026618

The sudden onset of sustained anti-LGBT discourse in Indonesia in 2016 gives pause to revisit a number of Indonesian movies from recent years, a cinema which has, since its re-emergence in the early 2000s, been noted for its positive engagement with... Read More about ‘There’s no place for us here’; imagining queer spaces in Indonesian cinema.

Double Identities in Dorce's Comedies: Negotiating Gender and Class in New Order Indonesian Cinema (2017)
Journal Article
Murtagh, B. (2017). Double Identities in Dorce's Comedies: Negotiating Gender and Class in New Order Indonesian Cinema. BKI - Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 173(2-3), 181-207. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17302021

Dorce Gamalama is one of Indonesian television’s best-known celebrities. She first rose to fame in the 1980s and her career is very much based on her public profile as a transsexual woman. This article focuses on Dorce’s performance of gender and cl... Read More about Double Identities in Dorce's Comedies: Negotiating Gender and Class in New Order Indonesian Cinema.

Genders and sexualities in Indonesian cinema: constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen (2013)
Book
Murtagh, B. (2013). Genders and sexualities in Indonesian cinema: constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203796993

Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of homosexual and transgender cultures, and the past 40 years in particular has seen an increased visibility of sexual minorities in the country, which has been reflected through film and popular culture. This... Read More about Genders and sexualities in Indonesian cinema: constructing gay, lesbi and waria identities on screen.

Gay, lesbi and waria audiences in Indonesia: watching homosexuality on screen (2011)
Journal Article
Murtagh, B. (2011). Gay, lesbi and waria audiences in Indonesia: watching homosexuality on screen. Indonesia and the Malay World, 39(115), 391-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2011.614088

Since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesian cinema has been noted for its concern with the representation of gay and lesbi sexualities. However, even during the New Order (1966–1998) a small number of films were produced which represented... Read More about Gay, lesbi and waria audiences in Indonesia: watching homosexuality on screen.