DR Ben Murtagh's Outputs (4)

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.

Situating anti-LGBT moral panics in Indonesia: homophobia, criminalisation, acceptance, and religiosity (2022)
Other
Situating anti-LGBT moral panics in Indonesia: homophobia, criminalisation, acceptance, and religiosity. Abingdon, UK

Introduction: Situating anti-LGBT moral panics in Indonesia: Homophobia, criminalisation, acceptance, and religiosity (2022)
Journal Article
García Rodríguez, D., & Murtagh, B. (2022). Introduction: Situating anti-LGBT moral panics in Indonesia: Homophobia, criminalisation, acceptance, and religiosity. Indonesia and the Malay World, 50(146), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2022.2038871

‘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.