With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and Noël Carroll challenge the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Since the 1970s, film scholars have been searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception; the field has been dominated by structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. Bordwel…
Buku Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema merupakan kumpulan esai penting dari Teresa de Lauretis yang mengkaji peran perempuan dalam sinema melalui lensa teori feminis, semiotika, dan psikoanalisis. Dengan mengkritisi narasi film mainstream dan struktur representasi gender, de Lauretis menyoroti bagaimana sinema tidak hanya merepresentasikan perempuan, tetapi juga membentuk subjektivitas…
Dalam Bab I "Masyarakat Warga dan Kebebasan", delapan tulisan lainnya mendeskripsi dan membahas kasus-kasus perjuangan menegakkan masyarakat madani (masyarakat warga) di Indonesia. Apa yang sudah terjadi dan masih terus berkembang disebabkan oleh belum mantapnya sistem politik bangsa Indonesia (Sulastomo), kebebasan informasi sebagai prasyarat sebuah masyarakat yang cerdas dan demokratis (Franz…
Pictures from Abu Ghraib showed the power of the amateur image to grab the world's attention. The Asian tsunami, caught on camcorder, brought home the reality of what had happened more than any news report ever could. Around the world the increasing availability and affordability of technology has fuelled the world of social justice video activism. Film-making - at its best - has the power to c…
This volume carves a lucid path through the central debates of film and cinema studies and explores these in their social and political contexts. The book includes histories of the ways in which we view Hollywood's global dominance, up to the development of late modernity and the declaration of postmodernity. In an accessible fashion, it discusses changing theorizations of the economics, audien…
The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehe…
Buku Cara Menilai Sebuah Film merupakan panduan komprehensif bagi pembaca yang ingin memahami dan mengevaluasi film secara kritis. Disusun oleh Joseph M. Boggs dan diterjemahkan oleh Drs. Asrul Sani, buku ini mengajak pembaca melampaui pengalaman menonton film secara pasif, menuju pendekatan analitis terhadap elemen-elemen sinematik seperti narasi, sinematografi, penyuntingan, suara, serta simb…
he increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain "collective rights" of minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles,…
This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book teaches actors how to achieve and respond to believable and honest emotions before the camera, and it maintains that the key to a successful performance lies in how the actors relate to one another…
Buku The Oscar Winners and Box Office: The Secret of Screenplay mengungkap rahasia di balik kesuksesan film-film peraih Oscar dan box office melalui pendekatan analisis terhadap struktur dan teknik penulisan skenario (screenplay). Jonris Purba membedah elemen-elemen kunci dalam penulisan naskah film yang efektif, mulai dari pembangunan karakter, alur cerita, konflik, dialog, hingga klimaks yang…