Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (Accepted/In press). Bordwell and the Global South. In M. Smith, & C. Keil (Eds.), Observing Film Art Rutgers University Press.
Purnama, A. (Accepted/In press). Leveraging the Art of Not Being Formalised: How Uganda’s Wakaliwood Decolonises Film Production Methods. In B. Karam, & B. Mutsvairo (Eds.), Handbook of Cinema in the Global South Intellect Books.

2023

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A., & Prasetyo, F. A. (2023). Creative is not always lucrative: how grassroots film communities defy the ‘creativisation of culture’ in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2023.2185572
Purnama, A. (2023). Film Style in Indonesian Cinema, 1998-2018: Lighting, Production Design and Camera Movement . Edinburgh University Press.

2022

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2022). Film style, production design and the politics of interracial–interfaith relationship in Yasmin Ahmad’s Chocolate (2009). Short Film Studies. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00083_1

2019

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2019). Meaningful Looks: The Transformation, Function and Meaning of Visual Style in Contemporary Indonesian Film. [Doctoral thesis 2 (Research NOT UU / Graduation UU), University of Groningen].

2016

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2016). The Video Compact Disc and the Digital Preservation of Indonesian Cinema. In G. Fossati, & A. van den Oever (Eds.), Exposing the Film Apparatus: The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462983168

2015

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2015). Syndromes of Indirect Communication: A Functional Analysis of the Static Long-take Technique in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Feature Films. Asian Cinema.

2014

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2014). Conference Report: Workshop on Indonesian Cinema, Royal Asiatic Society, University of London SOAS, October 17-18, 2013.

2013

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2013). A Historical Poetics of Independent Fiction Films from Southeast Asia: Toward A Multidisciplinary, Objects-centered and Historically Sensitive Southeast Asian Film Scholarship. In The 8th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong

2011

Scholarly publications

Purnama, A. (2011). Memetakan Kompleksitas Kajian dan Teori Film: Dari Formalisme Rusia sampai Pendekatan Kognitif-Ekologis. Cinema Poetica.

Popularising publications

Purnama, A. (2011, Mar 4). Multatuli’s Max Havelaar: who is more corrupt? Revisiting Multatuli’s Max Havelaar through its cinematic adaptation: a review of Max Havelaar (film).
Purnama, A. (2011, Aug 14). “Belkibolang": Indonesian Art Cinema Grown Full Force.