The Special Issue is Out! "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)

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

Table of Content: http://plarideljournal.org/article/table-contents-0

1.      A Note from the Editor : The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation,  and B-Movies

By Ekky Imanjaya (guest editor; PhD Candidate, University of East Anglia;  Lecturer, Bina Nusantara University)  http://plarideljournal.org/article/significance-indonesian-cult-exploitation-and-b-movies

2.      Exploiting Indonesia: From “Primitives” to “Outraged Fugitives”

By Thomas Barker (Assistant Professor of Film and Television,  the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus)

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

3.              The Raiding Dutchmen: Colonial stereotypes, identity and Islam in Indonesian B-movies

By Eric Sasono  (postgraduate student at Film Studies Department, King’s College, London)

 http://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 (PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota)

http://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 (doctoral program student , South East Asian Studies, the University of Sydney,  Australia)

http://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  (Lecturer, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara)—coming soon.

Abstract:

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  (Associate Head in the School of Art, Media and Design at the University of Brighton, Director of Cine-Excess International Film Festival

 http://plarideljournal.org/article/beneath-still-waters-brian-yuzna%E2%80%99s-ritual-return-indonesian-cinema

Documents:

1.      When East Meets West: 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 (Asian movies specialist, director of Garuda Power: The Spirit Within)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/when-east-meets-west-american-and-chinese-influences-early-indonesian-action-cinema-list

2.      On Lady Terminator

Interview with Barbara Anne Constable

By Andrew Leavold (Ph.D. candidate, Griffith University, director of “The Search for Weng Weng”)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/lady-terminator-interview-barbara-anne-constable

3.      Beneath Still Waters: The Brian Yuzna Interview http://plarideljournal.org/article/beneath-still-waters-brian-yuzna-interview

By Xavier Mendik

4.      Scripting an Indonesian Monster: The John Penney Interview:   http://plarideljournal.org/article/scripting-indonesian-monster-john-penney-interview

By Xavier Mendik