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Murtagh, Ben (2017) 'Double Identities in Dorce's Comedies: Negotiating Gender and Class in New Order Indonesian Cinema.' Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 173 (2-3). pp. 181-207.

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Abstract

Dorce Gamalama is one of Indonesian television’s best-known celebrities. She first rose to fame in the 1980s and her career is very much based on her public profile as a transsexual woman. This article focuses on Dorce’s performance of gender and class in two films: Dorce ketemu jodoh (Dorce meets her match, 1990) and Dorce sok akrab (Dorce up close, 1989). In Dorce ketemu jodoh, Dorce represents herself as a woman, albeit one who is unlike other women, and who is confident enough in her gender identity not to shy away from gender playfulness. In Dorce sok akrab, Dorce’s character encapsulates the possibility for upward social mobility as an integral aspect of New Order development ideology, though it is a mobility which strongly resists notions of westernisation and elitism, and is instead firmly rooted in local forms of cultural identity.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Indonesian cinema; transgender identity; transsexual women; social classes
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia
ISSN: 00062294
Copyright Statement: © Ben Murtagh 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC license at the time of publication. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17302021
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2017 11:35
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/23839

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