Flip and Switch - Minority and Cult Film in Indonesian Cinema
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: This research has put forward a Flip and Switch concept as a mark for exchanging a quality and character position in a film by analyzing with a semiotic rectangle methodology (the Greimas’Rectangle). There are two Flips and two Switches in the film “Cahaya Dari Timur: Beta Maluku” as the findings of the research, marking a change of the view point and narrative pattern that will be conveyed by the film against the hope of story plot from the spectators’ mind. By taking criterion which makes this film to become a cult film, the research findings have overlapped peculiar scenes leading to the cult film to be. There will be phenomena criteria formed that can be able to bring them (peculiar scenes) up. But today, the film of Cahaya Dari Timur: Beta Maluku is not a cult film. As we know that Cahaya Dari Timur: Beta Maluku, began with an idea of non-anti minority which is the complement of anti- minority issue. These findings have marked that this film is not about a minority but it is about what is being born after a minority conflict has been completed.
Author: Ahmad Riza Faizal
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4248009502