A Note on Indonesian Spelling -- Framing the Questions -- Pt. 1. Social and Political Context. 1. The beginning: Early 1900s to 1956. 2. Political Polarisation and Cinema: 1956-66. 3. Institutions of New Order Cinema -- Pt. 2. Society and Politics in Film Texts. 4. Narrating the Nation for a Military State. 5. Telling Tales of a Class Society. 6. Women's Pictures in Men's Fictions. 7. The New 'Ordered' Cinema