Abstract
This study aims to examine the film audience reception on gender and disabilities representation towards What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love (Yang Tidak Dibicarakan Ketika Membicarakan Cinta, 2013). This film directed by a prominent Indonesian woman film director, Mouly Surya, and produced in 2013. Such audience study is very important in the scholarship of women and Indonesian films dominated by studies on women representation in the film and women filmmakers. Employing reception analysis based on Stuart Hall’s work, this study involves six Indonesian students as informant of a series of in-depth interviews. The study finds that the personal experiences and knowledge of informants, as well as their film habits, but not their gender, influences their interpretation toward the issue of gender and disabilities in the film.
Highlights
Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pemaknaan penonton film terhadap representasi gender dan kaum difabel yang terdapat dalam film What We Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love (Yang Tidak Dibicarakan Ketika Membicarakan Cinta, 2013)
Excellent.”(Dewi, interview, 26 September 2014). Those six quotes are the answers of six informants I interviewed for a film reception study when I asked them to spontaneously mention three keywords regarding What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love
This study on reception analysis of the audience towards womendirected films is an extension of my doctoral research concerning women directors and their films in the context of the post-New Order Indonesian films, where I still have not discussed the issues of audience
Summary
Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pemaknaan penonton film terhadap representasi gender dan kaum difabel yang terdapat dalam film What We Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love (Yang Tidak Dibicarakan Ketika Membicarakan Cinta, 2013). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pengalaman dan pengetahuan pribadi serta kebiasaan menonton film informan, bukan gender, mempengaruhi pemaknaan mereka terhadap persoalan gender dan kaum difabel di film Those six quotes are the answers of six informants I interviewed for a film reception study when I asked them to spontaneously mention three keywords regarding What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love (shortly called Don’t Talk Love). The preceding explanation is parts of the findings in my research, which I will discuss in this paper It aims to elaborate the experiences, understanding and interpretation of the audience towards the issues on dissablities, women as well as the film language used by the director to deliver the messages of the film. This study on reception analysis of the audience towards womendirected films is an extension of my doctoral research concerning women directors and their films in the context of the post-New Order Indonesian films, where I still have not discussed the issues of audience
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