Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television - Pencak Silat, Mediation, and Mediatization

This study examines the Indonesian martial arts pencak silat as media practices. The author delineates embodied and disembodied media practices to analyze the dynamics of mediatization in pencak silat and Indonesian society at large.

List of contents

Introduction: Martial Arts, Media, and Modernities
Chapter 1: Theoretical framework: Martial Arts and/as Media
Chapter 2: Methodology: Apprenticeship and Media Engagement
Chapter 3: Pencak Silat Merentang Waktu: A Historical Perspective
Chapter 4: Mediating Pencak Silat: Pencak Silat as Medium
Chapter 5: Pencak Silat and (dis-)embodied media practices
Chapter 6: Pencak Silat (media) events: fictions of collective life?
Conclusion: Pencak Silat Mediation and Mediatization

About the author

Patrick Keilbart is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Passau.

Summary

This study examines the Indonesian martial arts pencak silat as media practices. The author delineates embodied and disembodied media practices to analyze the dynamics of mediatization in pencak silat and Indonesian society at large.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Keilbart
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793627155
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-715-5
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Modern Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Films, cinema, South East Asia, Asian History, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General