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

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

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

Contributors:

By (Author) Patrick Keilbart

ISBN:

9781793627155

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Lexington Books

Publication Date:

29th June 2021

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Films, cinema

Dewey:

791.436579

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

364

Dimensions:

Width 161mm, Height 228mm, Spine 28mm

Weight:

758g

Description

This book studies the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat and related media practices, and, building on that, assesses mediatization processes, meaning the potential influence of technology-based media practices. Pencak Silat represents a cultural system of values and beliefs, with hierarchical structures and relations, and social advancement being mediated in embodied social learning. The study contributes to martial arts studies and media studies, demonstrating potentials and limitations of media technologies and their (dis-)embodiment their extension or reduction of the body as medium, and their embeddedness in or detachment from a given socio-cultural context. With Pencak Silat being practiced all over Indonesia, by a large part of the population, the thesis also represents a contribution to Indonesian studies. Based on extensive fieldwork (between 2008 and 2016), the study analyzes martial arts and/as media in Indonesia, and presents an ethnography of Pencak Silat and mediatization.

Author Bio

Patrick Keilbart is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Passau.

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