Tag: frame
Mainland China Box Office Report: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East’ Rules Quiet Pre-Holiday Frame with Sixth Weekend at No. 1
Main Facts The mainland China box office experienced a quiet, transitional weekend frame from September 18 to September 20, as the market entered a notable pre-holiday lull ahead of the highly anticipated National Day Golden Week corridor. Despite the overall slowdown in nationwide theatrical revenue—which slumped to a modest $15 million for the three-day weekend—Dirty […]
Beyond the Frame: Deconstructing Meta-Cinema in "Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-film"
In the landscape of contemporary Indonesian cinema, few films have managed to interrogate the medium of filmmaking itself with as much tenderness and biting wit as Yandy Laurens’ Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-film (2023). Moving beyond the tropes of the romantic comedy genre, the film functions as a sophisticated piece of meta-cinema—a movie about the […]
The Frame of Consent: Unpacking Gina S. Noer’s Like & Share and the Digital Reality of Gender-Based Violence
In her seminal 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag posited that we reside in an era where reality is fundamentally constructed by the spectacle. The camera, she argued, provides a bridge for spectators to witness realities that would otherwise remain inaccessible. Yet, this raises a haunting ethical dilemma: what defines the boundary […]
Beyond the Frame: Deconstructing Meta-Cinema in Yandy Laurens’ Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-film
In the landscape of contemporary Indonesian cinema, few films have managed to interrogate the medium of filmmaking itself with as much intimacy and structural audacity as Yandy Laurens’ Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-film (2023). While the "film-within-a-film" trope is a well-worn narrative device, Laurens elevates it beyond mere behind-the-scenes documentation, transforming the screen into a […]
