Exoticizing the Other: Doing a Virtual Tourism on Denias, Senandung di Atas Awan (2006)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-028-2_10How to use a DOI?

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exoticizing; virtual tourism; multimodality; movie on Papuan children

Abstract

This research aims to reveal the process of exoticizing to naturalize the difference in Denias, Senandung di Atas Awan (2006), a movie about the life of Papuan children. Any pictorial representations seen as the spectacle of the others dismantle the ideology implied in the film, viewed in Denias’ ethnic background in relation to the dominant culture and power. The visuality of this film serves a virtual tourism that are very pleasing on the eyes, but from Kress and Leeuwen’s representational, interactive and compositional multimodal aspects, as the methods to analyze the visual data in this research, it gives us a critical insight on the way this movie represents Papuan people and land. Camera angles and shots in representing people and context in this film become the tool in showing how the exoticizing process takes place. By doing virtual tourism, spectators are led by the dominant culture to exercise power by reducing, classifying/spitting, essentializing, agreeing and disagreeing as forms of symbolic power over Papuan people and land as the represented. Those stereotypical representations produce knowledge that Papua is described ethnically different from other parts of Indonesia. The result of the analysis shows that apart from the intention in promoting multiculturalism, this movie still places the Papuan as subordinate other that is beautifully posed through its scenic scenes.

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AU  - Tribuana Sari
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