Demanding images : democracy, mediation, and the image-event in Indonesia

Strassler, Karen 1969- (author.).

Summary: "In DEMANDING IMAGES Karen Strassler uses the concept of image-event -- a period where images circulate in ways that contest and transform the public sphere -- to understand post-New Order Indonesia. Appropriated images, including images of Suharto and his historical opponents, recirculate, in street art, museums, newspapers, t-shirts, and stickers, forming a visual public sphere debating democracy and and new forms of corrupt governance in Indonesia's political present. The Reformasi movement in 1998 used images and the concept of transparency to represent the promise of democracy, and Strassler sees the recurrent images as a continual and shifting debate on that promised future. In a wider frame, Strassler's study of visual culture theorizes how ubiquitous political images are used by publics to confirm or deny the values of the political environment in which they circulate, while also shaping the values and seminal events that cause political publics to form in the first place. By building a theory of how political imaginaries circulate in the dense network of mass-produced and sub-cultural media, Strassler indicates the mutable and contingent nature of publics and political desire"--

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ISBN: 9781478005544
ISBN: 147800469X
ISBN: 9781478004691
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ISBN: 9781478004080
Physical Description: xiv, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Demanding Images -- Chapter One: Face Value -- Chapter Two: The Gender of Transparency -- Chapter Three: The Scandal of Exposure -- Chapter Four: Naked Effects -- Chapter Five: Street Signs -- Conclusion: Agents of Vision.