Negotiating Islam with cinema A theoretical discussion on Indonesian Islamic films
This paper aims at exploring certain negotiations that justify Muslim’s cinematic texts and practices. It focuses on the questions about what is Islamic and un-Islamic about film, who and what decides certain films as Islamic, and what are the meanings of cinematic practices of Islam for Muslim soci...
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doaj-ba3c8704193148ffbbdf19089d7685162021-07-08T04:08:07ZengUniversity of IndonesiaWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992012-04-0114111610.17510/wjhi.v14i1.4646Negotiating Islam with cinema A theoretical discussion on Indonesian Islamic filmsAhmad Nuril Huda0PhD student at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden UniversityThis paper aims at exploring certain negotiations that justify Muslim’s cinematic texts and practices. It focuses on the questions about what is Islamic and un-Islamic about film, who and what decides certain films as Islamic, and what are the meanings of cinematic practices of Islam for Muslim society. Furthermore, this paper tries to investigate these questions from a theoretical basis using concepts of Islamic modernity, Islamic Ummah and Public, in order to shed some light on the idea of how a production of an Islamic film may trigger the creation of a political and religious identity.http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/46indonesian islamic film, islamic modernity, islamic ummah and public. |
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Negotiating Islam with cinema A theoretical discussion on Indonesian Islamic films |
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University of Indonesia |
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Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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This paper aims at exploring certain negotiations that justify Muslim’s cinematic texts and practices. It focuses on the questions about what is Islamic and un-Islamic about film, who and what decides certain films as Islamic, and what are the meanings of cinematic practices of Islam for Muslim society. Furthermore, this paper tries to investigate these questions from a theoretical basis using concepts of Islamic modernity, Islamic Ummah and Public, in order to shed some light on the idea of how a production of an Islamic film may trigger the creation of a political and religious identity. |
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indonesian islamic film, islamic modernity, islamic ummah and public. |
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