Sneak Peek: Table of Content & Abstracts of Plaridel special issue: "The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies"

The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies

Plaridel  Journal, Special Issue, Vol 11, Issue No. 2, 2014.

Guest Editor: 

Ekky Imanjaya 

(PhD Candidate, University of East Anglia, UK; 

faculty member, school of Film, Binus International, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)

Coming soon: December 18, 2014

Table of Content and Abstracts:

1.     The Significance of Indonesian Exploitation and Cult Cinema: An Introduction to Special Issue

By Ekky Imanjaya (guest editor; University of East Anglia and Binus Nusantara University)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/significance-indonesian-cult-exploitation-and-b-movies

cover: http://www.plarideljournal.org/author/ekky-imanjaya

2.     Exploiting Indonesia: From Primitives to Outraged Fugitives

By Thomas Barker (University of Nottingham Malaysia)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/exploiting-indonesia-primitives-outraged-fugitives

3.     The Raiding Dutchmen: The Dutch Stereotypes in Indonesian Action Movies

By Eric Sasono  (RumahFilm.org)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/raiding-dutchmen-colonial-stereotypes-identity-and-islam-indonesian-b-movies

4.       The Earth is Getting Hotter: Urban Inferno and Outsider Women’s Collectives in Bumi Makin Panas

By Dag Yngvesson (University of Minnesota)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/earth-getting-hotter-urban-inferno-and-outsider-women%E2%80%99s-collectives-bumi-makin-panas

5.        Challenging New Order’s Gender Ideology in Benyamin Sueb’s Betty Bencong Slebor: A Queer Reading

By Maimunah Munir (University of Airlangga)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/challenging-new-order%E2%80%99s-gender-ideology-benyamin-sueb%E2%80%99s-betty-bencong-slebor-queer-reading-0

6.       Genre versus Local Specificity: Configuring Rangda and Durga in Balinese and Bengali Films

By Makbul Mubarak  (Universitas Multimedia Nusantara)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/genre-versus-local-specificity-configuring-rangda-and-durga-balinese-and-bengali-films

7.       Beneath Still Waters: Brian Yuzna and the Transnational Indonesian Terror Text

By Xavier Mendik  (University of Brighton, Director of Cine-Excess Film Festival)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/beneath-still-waters-brian-yuzna-and-transnational-indonesian-terror-text

Documents

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST:

1.      American and Chinese influences on early Indonesian Action cinema

The List of Filmography of Early Indonesian Action Movies (1926-1941)

compiled by by Bastian Meiresonne

2.    On Lady Terminator

Interview with Barbara Anne Constable

By Andrew Leavold

3.     Beneath Still Waters: The Brian Yuzna Interview

By Xavier Mendik

4.     Scripting an Indonesian Monster: The John Penney Interview

By Xavier Mendik