Research
Examining the Aesthetics, Production Cultures, and Education of Screen Media
Research Areas.
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🔘 The representation of youth mental health and mental wellbeing in screen media content (films, television series, YouTube videos, etc.)
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🔘 Cinematography (lighting, visual darkness, camera movement, color)
🔘 Production Design (art direction, props, location filming, virtual set designs) -
🔘 Film production techniques, particularly in the Global South (Southeast Asia and East Africa)
🔘 Filmmaking technology🔘 Creative collaboration under constraints
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🔘 Diversity and inclusion efforts in the camera departments (cinematographer, camera operator, virtual production coordinator)
Publications (selected)
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Purnama, A. (2025). Epistemic Altruism: YouTube, Youth, and Screen Media anno 2025. In Media Res, (Spring, April 21). https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/epistemic-altruism-youtube-youth-and-screen-media-anno-2025
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Purnama, A. (2023). Film Style in Indonesian Cinema, 1998-2018: Lighting, Production Design and Camera Movement. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474496636
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2023.2185572
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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. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00083_1