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January 17, 2010 by Pundi Triardi S. | 5 Comments
“Politik” Film Indonesia (Order) Baru?
Oleh: Pundi T.S.
Sebagai satu bentuk budaya massa yang bersifat audiovisual, film dapat dipandang dan mempengaruhi bahkan membentuk nilai-nilai dan sikap hidup serta perilaku masyarakat. Berangkat dari pandangan semacam inilah pemerintah di banyak negara, termasuk di Indonesia, merasa perlu secara serius menaruh perhatian terhadap dunia perfilman. Salah satu bentuk perhatian itu diwujudkan dengan mendirikan lembaga sensor film. Antara lain melalui lembaga inilah pemerintah berusaha menentukan ...
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June 28, 2009 by c2o library | No Comments
Antologi Cerpen | INSISTPress | 2005 | 152pp
Satu antologi cerpen yang mengajak kita masuk dalam suatu dunia asing yang kental dengan bisikan retorika dan alusi puitik. Gunawan Maryanto mengolah cerita-ceritanya berdasarkan teks yang sudah ada sebelumnya, misalnya: Jangan bilang-bilang kala diangkat dari Murwakala dan Ruwatan dalam serat Centhini, Serat Padi dari Serat Canyos Dewi Sri, dll. Maryanto memberi penjelasan mengenai teks-teks lama tersebut dalam catatan akhirnya, yang ...
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June 22, 2009 by c2o library | 2 Comments
An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials | English | Sage | 304p
Sesuai dengan namanya, buku ini memaparkan beragam teori dan metodologi analisa materi visual dan kaitannya dengan budaya sekitarnya. Dengan sistematis dan konstruktif Rose menganalisa berbagai kerangka teoritis serta metodologi relevan yang menyediakan bagaimana, kenapa dan kapan kita dapat menggunakan teknologi visual untuk mendukung penelitian, atau bahkan menjadi bagian utama dari penelitian itu sendiri. Di sini ...
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February 24, 2009 by c2o library | 1 Comment
Komunitas Penerbit Jogja | September 2007 | 341pp
Senang sekali saat menerima buku ini dari dua teman termaniesz1 dan pendukung tersetia C2O, Pundi (eks-dukun Antro UNAIR, Komunitas Genjer-genjer) dan Tinta (Anitha Selvia). Tambah puas lagi begitu saya menyelesaikannya. Begitu banyak hal yang membuat saya geleng-geleng kepala, salut, cengengesan, miris dan sebagainya membaca tingkah dan dinamika penerbit-penerbit kecil.
Buku ini dibagi menjadi tiga episode (yang kurang lebih) kronologis, disertai pembuka dan ...
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January 12, 2009 by c2o library | No Comments
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December 10, 2008 by c2o library | No Comments
[lang_en]На Дрини ћуприја / Na Drini ćuprija | Yugoslavia | 1945 | Serbo-Croatian trans. into English
This book describes the relations between Orthodox Christian Serbs and Bosniaks (Muslims) in the town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the centuries of Ottoman and Austrian administration.
The story spans about four centuries and is in some sense a collection of short stories. What unites the book and becomes in a ...
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November 11, 2008 by c2o library | No Comments
Austria | 1983 | available in English and Indonesian | Movie available
A somewhat failed musical prodigy, the strict and rigid Erika Kohut taught piano at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory during the day and trawls the porn districts by night. Living (and still sleeping in one bed) with her domineering mother, who’s “old enough to be her grandmother”, her life has been congenitally forced along her Mother’s ideal.
Mother knows ...
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November 11, 2008 by c2o library | No Comments
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October 11, 2008 by c2o library | 2 Comments
Non-Fiksi (Sains) | 571.8 JUDS | Hardcover | Bahasa Inggris
Dengan menggunakan metafor antropomorfis yang kocak, dalam buku ini Olivia Judson menciptakan alter-egonya, Dr. Tatiana, kolumnis problem seks yang menjawab pertanyaan, persoalan dan kepusingan seksual berbagai macam makhluk hidup, termasuk serangga, ulat, dll. (meskipun tumbuhan tidak begitu sering dibahas).
Kolom-kolom dalam buku ini dibagi menjadi 13 bab, dengan tiap bab mengusut tema-tema yang berbeda ("kejalangan" betina, biaya ngegebet, kanibalisme, kekerasan, ...
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September 29, 2008 by c2o library | 1 Comment
Maaf, artikel ini hanya tersedia dalam bahasa English.
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September 18, 2008 by Tyas | No Comments
The "poisonous" yellow book of Dorian Gray | France | 1884 | in English
Ketika pada akhirnya saya selesai membaca novel ini, saya menghembuskan napas lega, selega-leganya. Membaca buku ini seperti menempuh perjalanan berat tanpa tahu kita mau dibawa ke mana. Jurnal ilmiah saja lebih punya alur daripada novel ini. Ini dia yang namanya ‘Plot, What Plot?’
Buku ini adalah satu-satunya dalam genrenya – yang entahlah genre apa. Tapi konon ...
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September 12, 2008 by c2o library | 1 Comment
[lang_en]Choke tells the story of Victor Mancini, who works in a colonial-era theme park with a motley group of losers and breezes to sexual addiction support groups for entertainments. A medical school drop-out, he cannot afford the care of his feeble mother, so he resorts to consistently going to various restaurants and purposely causing himself to choke mid-way through his meal, luring a “good Samaritan” into saving his ...
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August 22, 2008 by c2o library | No Comments
This is a collection of more than 150 non-fiction pieces (critical essays, movie & book reviews, prologues, introductions) grouped chronologically from his earlier (disowned) writings to the year of his death in 1986. Some of these pieces have also appeared in Labyrinths. Most are short, with longer pieces dedicated to certain subjects well-associated with Borges (The Thousand and One Night, time, dreams, labyrinth…).
Readers will notice recurring themes and ...
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August 19, 2008 by c2o library | No Comments
A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death’s impenetrability. With strong political undercurrents and recondite personal insights, Kiš’s reworked facts, Gnostic, Biblical, Koran myths and legends, political situations, rural folktales, depicting the delicate multitude and vicissitude of human life, perhaps with less faux vérité style than A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, yet with the same ...
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March 28, 2008 by c2o library | No Comments
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
With that hokum-slash-truism, the novel begins the story about Osman, a young student who became obsessed about a book, as well as those who have read it, looking for some sorts of answers, common threads, and comparisons to how the book affects their lives and gives the possibility of a new life (a sentiment shared by many ...
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