Book Chapters (in press)
Purnama, A. (in press). Decolonizing interracial romance and sexuality: #AMWF YouTube celebrities in East and Southeast Asia. In S. Redmond, J. Xu, & L. Zhang (Eds.), Border crossings in contemporary Asian celebrity and fandom. Bloomsbury.
Purnama, A. (in press). Bordwell and the Global South. In M. Smith & C. Keil (Eds.), Observing film art. Rutgers University Press.
Purnama, A. (in press). The primacy of råså: Atmospheric affordances of intensified visual darkness in contemporary Indonesian cinematography. In S. Hven & D. Yacavone (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of moving image atmospheres and felt environments. Oxford University Press.
Book
Purnama, A. (2023). Film style in Indonesian cinema, 1998–2018: Lighting, production design and camera movement. Edinburgh University Press.
Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Purnama, A. (2025). Epistemic Altruism: YouTube, Youth, and Screen Media anno 2025. Web publication/site, media commons. https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/epistemic-altruism-youtube-youth-and-screen-media-anno-2025
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, 37(1), 111-126. [DOI]
Purnama, A. (2023). Film Style in Indonesian Cinema, 1998-2018: Lighting, Production Design and Camera Movement . Edinburgh University Press. [DOI]
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, 12(2), 193-204. [DOI]
2019
Scholarly publications
Purnama, A. (2019). Meaningful Looks: The Transformation, Function and Meaning of Visual Style in Contemporary Indonesian Film. [Doctoral thesis 3 (Research UU / Graduation NOT UU), University of Groningen]. 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 (pp. 141-150). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI]
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, 26(2), 205-222.
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. http://cinemapoetica.com/memetakan-kompleksitas-kajian-dan-teori-film-bagian-1/
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.