{"product_id":"how-do-we-look-9781478013679","title":"How Do We Look","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow Do We Look?\u003c\/i\u003e Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s \u003ci\u003eThe Dance that Makes You Vanish\u003c\/i\u003e, Vincent Monnikendam’s \u003ci\u003eMother Dao\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify ex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fatimah Tobing Rony's passionate appeal for a different kind of filmmaking that might interrupt the representational violence of what she calls visual biopolitics animates every page of this innovative and important book. Building a powerful argument about how habitual ways of seeing and not seeing are produced, reproduced, and resisted via visual media, Rony makes a welcome and original contribution to both film studies and Southeast Asian studies.” -- Karen Strassler, author of * Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia *\u003cbr\u003e“Fatimah Tobing Rony traces a fascinating visual archive across time, media, and sites of power, drawing out chilling resonances among primary media texts with great erudition, critical force, and lyricism. No other author is a sophisticated art historian, critical ethnographer, postcolonial feminist theorist, and filmmaker all in one. This powerful and remarkable book positions Rony as a brilliant and essential cultural voice.” -- Patricia White, author of * Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTongue\u003c\/i\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. How Do We Look?  3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Peonies\u003c\/i\u003e  24\u003cbr\u003e 1. Annah la Javanaise  27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e  70\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Still Dancer  72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dressing Down\u003c\/i\u003e  108\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eMother Dao\u003c\/i\u003e  110\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e  147\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nia Dinata  148\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Fourth Eye  187\u003cbr\u003e Notes  191\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  213\u003cbr\u003e Index  225","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408993886551,"sku":"9781478013679","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013679.jpg?v=1730505008","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-do-we-look-9781478013679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}