Moments in Indonesian Film History

David Hanan is the author of Cultural Specificity in Indonesian Film: Diversity in Unity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has researched film in Indonesia and South East Asia for more than thirty years. He is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Filming the ‘Struggle for the Nation’, and its Aftermath: The Early Films of Usmar Ismail and the Perfini Company (1950-1954).- Chapter 2. A Tradition of Political Allegory and Political Satire in Indonesian Cinema (1955–2003).- Chapter 3. Islam in The Indonesian Cinema: Legends and Spirituality. Psychology and Politics (1960s–1990s).- Chapter 4. Betawi Moderen: Songs and Films of Benyamin S from Jakarta in the 1970s: A Popular Culture of the Poor.- Chapter 5. Third World Experimental Narrative in Indonesian Film: Travelling the Centre-Periphery Axis (1979-1985).- Chapter 6. Developments in Indonesian.- Cinema since 1998: A Survey.- Conclusion.