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: 9781478004691
ISBN: 9781478004080
ISBN: 9781478005544
ISBN: 9781478004691
ISBN: 9781478004080
ISBN: 1478005548
ISBN: 147800469X
ISBN: 1478004088
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates)
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Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

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General Note:	CatMonthString:august.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- 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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2020).