How Do We Look?

“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

“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

"[Rony's] multifaceted, deeply empathetic, and imaginative book will make a great contribution to any advanced course in the fields of women’s and gender studies, anthropology, and global studies." - Eva Hoffmann, Resources for Gender and Women's Studies