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Books

The Anthropology of Performance

Victor Turner | PAJ Publications | English | Non-Fiction (Social Science/Anthropology) |

Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and “performing ethnography” to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, “Body, Brain, and Culture” links cerebral neurology and anthropology studies in a fascinating interface.

Donated by Pundi (Antropogizmo)

Fetish, Recognition, Revolution

James T. Siegel | Princeton University Press | English | Non-Fiction ( History/Indonesian History ) | 959.8022 SIEG | 286pp

Siegel’s analysis summoned Sumatran recollections of creating urban modernity through adopting music, clothing, language, and books from European sources, yet perceiving these new elements as effortlessly translated into a new Indonesian cultural world.

Donated by Pundi (Antropogizmo)

Hayat dan Karya: Antropolog sebagai Penulis dan Pengarang

Works & Lives | Clifford Geertz | LKiS | Bahasa Indonesia

Non-Fiction (Social Science/Anthropology) | 306 GEER

Gayatri Spivak: Etika, Subaltern dan Kritik Penalaran

Gayatri Spivak | Stephern Morton | Pararaton | Bahasa Indonesia

Non-Fiction (Social Science) | 306 MORT | 324pp

Sinema: Apakah Itu?

Qu’est-ce que le cinéma? | André Bazin | Depdikbud | Bahasa Indonesia

Non-Fiction (Films & Performance) | 316pp

André Bazin’s What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they’ve been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinéma, which under his leadership became one of the world’s most distinguished publications. Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who contributed a short foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he became the protégé of François Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his forword to Volume II. This new edition includes graceful forewords to each volume by Bazin scholar and biographer Dudley Andrew, who reconsiders Bazin and his place in contemporary film study. The essays themselves are erudite but always accessible, intellectual, and stimulating. As Renoir puts it, the essays of Bazin “will survive even if the cinema does not.”

Donated by Pundi (Antropogizmo)

Films & Videos

Europa

Lars von Trier | 1991 | DVD | in German & English with English, Indonesian subs

The final film in Lars von Trier’s ‘Europa‘ trilogy which illuminates the traumas of Europe in the future. Just after WW2, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down!

Pedro Almodovar | 1990 | DVD | Spain | Spanish with optional English, Indonesian subs

The film follows Ricky (Banderas), a young man recently released from a mental institution, who has been obsessed with Marina (Abril), an actress, former porn star, and recovering heroin addict, since the pair shared a one-night stand one year ago. Ricky kidnaps Marina, believing that he can force her to fall in love with him. Eventually, Marina does fall in love with him, but still considers herself his prisoner, and tells him to keep her tied up so that she won’t try to escape. Subsequently, she reluctantly escapes with the assistance of her sister Lola (Loles León), but the lovers are eventually reunited.

Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule

Jean-Luc Godard | 1988 | France | in French with English sub

Histoire(s) du cinéma - as TV series/video essay - was made for Canal+, ARTE and Gaumont, from 1988 to 1998. The work subdivides into four chapters of two parts each. Of those four chapters, the first was broadcasted on five European channels simultaneously, the three others have been screened at film festivals. The series was shown as part of an installation at Documenta X, the interdisciplinary arts festival in Kassel, Germany, in 1997. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has screened each episode as it has become available. An extended essay on cinema by means of cinema. A history of the cinema, and history interpreted by the cinema. An hommage and a critique. An anecdotal autobiography, illuminated by Godard’s encyclopaedic wit, extending the idiom established by Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard. An epic – and non-linear – poem. A freely associative essay. A vast multi-layered musical composition. Histoire(s) du cinéma is all of these. It is above all, a work made by a man who loves and is fascinated by the world of film.

The Shock of the New

Robert Hughes | 1980s | BBC Four Documentaries | in English, no sub

Intelligent, gripping, innovative, Robert Hughes’ eight-part exploration of modern art gets an airing on BBC Four. First shown on BBC Two in the 1980s, the series looks at different themes rather than presenting the art chronologically.

Control

Anton Corbijn | 2007 | UK | 122 mins

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23. Donated by Alfan Rahadi (Papa Onta)