The article focuses on the films of Malaysian Director Yasmin Ahmad and highlights her cosmopolitan sensibility in making Islamic film. Among her films that became the focus of a talk show debate on national television station were “Mukhsin,” “Sepet and Gubra: Cultural Corruptors?,” and “Muallaf.” Most of her films have an Islamic representation, an Islam… Continue reading The Politics of Love: Malaysia’s Yasmin Ahmad.
Category: Media Freedom
The rough and rosy road: sites of contestation in Malaysia’s shackled media industry
This paper addresses the subject of media control in Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional (BN–National Front) regime, the coalition of ethnically-based political parties that has ruled the country since independence. As Hughes notes in her introduction to this issue, the dominant liberal discourse on democratization often views the mass media in fairly functionalist terms as… Continue reading The rough and rosy road: sites of contestation in Malaysia’s shackled media industry