After Screen Life

After Screen Life examines how gender, faith and ageing shape the working lives of women in the Malaysian screen industries. Focusing particularly on Muslim women behind the screen, the book explores how creative labour is structured by gendered expectations, religious values, family responsibilities, age-based assumptions and precarious production cultures. Drawing on production studies, feminist media scholarship, Islamic ethical perspectives and Global South creative labour debates, the book moves beyond celebratory accounts of media work to consider what happens when women grow older in industries that often value youth, flexibility and constant availability. Written in an accessible academic voice, it speaks to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers concerned with media labour, gender equality, ageing, cultural policy and the future of creative work in Southeast Asia.