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Persisting Silence: Sexual Slander, Mass Murder, and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2014)
Persisting Silence: Sexual Slander, Mass Murder and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2014)
Wieringa (2014) uses The Act of Killing to argue Indonesian indifference to the film reflects the enduring success of the military's sexual moral panic against communism; discusses a director's-cut scene and levels of silence about Gerwani. Memory and silence.
Wieringa (2014) memakai The Act of Killing untuk berargumen bahwa ketidakpedulian publik Indonesia pada film itu mencerminkan keberhasilan panik moral seksual militer terhadap komunisme; membahas adegan edisi sutradara dan lapisan kebisuan tentang Gerwani. Ingatan dan kebisuan.
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- 2014
- Creator
- Wieringa
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- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (film analysis and historical essay))
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- English
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- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- South Korea
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- 1999–present
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- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
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- Taylor & Francis Online (Asian Journal of Women's Studies, journal homepage tandfonline.com/journals/rajw20), DOI 10.1080/12259276.2014.11666190; originally published by the Asian Center for Women's Studies, Ewha Womans University; library-licensed access [open-access status not indicated on the PDF]; annotated 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
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- Wieringa, S. E. (2014). Persisting silence: Sexual slander, mass murder, and The Act of Killing. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 20(3), 50–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2014.11666190
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wieringa (2014) - Persisting Silence, Sexual Slander, Mass Murder, and The Act of Killing.pdf
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- Good (0.957) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
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- condensed from full annotation
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