The Risky Journal

Female-led superhero movies are rare US’ export commodity. CBS Supergil Poster Since the booming of superhero movies in 2000, for instance, only Catwoman (2004) and Elektra (2005) featured female as the lead hero. Unfortunately, citing many reasons, the feline antihero and the female assassin successfully failed in the market. The failure of female superhero movies re-affirmed the existing myth in Hollywood that female superhero movies are cursed (or, are allegedly set to fail according to this website ). This is interesting because according to the statistics released by the Motion Picture Association of America, 52 percent of moviegoers are women . Therefore, I was excited when I found out that a Supergirl series was being made . And, after watching the first episode of the series, I actually think that this time, female superhero characters will not fail. Supergirl series first aired on Monday, October 26, 2015 at CBS. This is the latest installment of DC Comics charact...

Sumber: arifnurahman.com Sama seperti siang hari kemarin, hari ini saya masih berstatus “jobseeker” istilah keren untuk pengangguran . Kalau semua berjalan lancar, semoga bulan depan saya sudah tidak berstatus demikian, Amiiiin. Untuk mengisi waktu luang, saya pun menghidupkan televisi mencoba melihat apakah ada acara yang menarik. Karena sudah lewat jam 1, saya rasa sudah tidak ada acara yang menarik. Saya kelewatan acara favorit yang mampu menghubur saya yaitu Awas Ada Sule J (ini bukan iklan). Selepas jam 1, yang ada di saluran televisi Indonesia adalah FTV, talkshow, berita, FTV, lalu FTV yang lain  dan film pendek yang lain. Tidak banyak pilihan memang bila kita tidak memakai jasa televisi berlangganan. Akhirnya saya memutuskan menonton beberapa FTV. Ya, beberapa, karena saya selalu pindah-pindah saluran televisi. Semakin saya tonton beberapa FTV ini, banyak hal – hal kecil yang menarik untuk dikomentari. Namun di posting an kali ini saya hanya akan mengamati khusus te...

Hari ini, serial drama korea Dong Yi yang ditayangkan oleh Indosiar berakhir. Besok, serial The Great Queen Soendoek akan ditayangkan ulang. Dulu, stasiun televisi yang sekarang memfokuskan diri pada drama asia ini menayangkan serial Jewel in the Palace . Kalau dilihat, Korea (dalam hal ini yang dimaksud adalah Korea Selatan) memang sering membuat produk serial kolosal yang menayangkan wanita Korea yang mampu meraih status tertinggi di masyarakat pada zaman dahulu kala. Dong Yi, selir kesayangan Raja Sukjong   Ketiga serial ini ( Dong Yi, The Great Queen Soendoek dan Jewel in the Palace ) berdasar pada sejarah yang benar – benar terjadi di Korea . Ketiga tokoh utama yang ada di serial tersebut nyata. Dong Yi , mengkisahkan seorang wanita dari kelas rakyat jelata yang mampu menjadi selir istana kesayangan raja. Namun, di akhir hidupnya, ia memilih untuk tinggal di istana, mengabdikan hidupnya untuk rakyat jelata. The Great Queen Soendoek mengisahkan perebutan tahta di...

This afternoon (December 22, 2010), I took a glimpse of a TV program in MTV Indonesia entitled MTV Alay. Well it was not that difficult to predict what this TV program is all about. As the name suggests, it presents shows    about “Alay” phenomena in Indonesian culture and society. This afternoon, the host of the show, VJ Daniel, interviewed three teenagers embracing “alay” identity, while VJ Daniel himself dressed in “alay” fashion. This program also featured video clips of Indonesian bands which could be labeled as “alay” band. "Alay" itself is a pop culture phenomenon in Indonesia to refer a broad of new pop cultural practices raging from music, fashion and writing style.  "Alay" is broadly used to refer to cocky and cheesy persons. In short, "alay" is attached with negative values. A profound explanation of this term will be given later.  However, why does MTV decide to dedicate a standalone program to this branch of new pop culture phenomena? W...

Infotainment is probably one of the most successful program in current Indonesian tv program. Stories of celebrities are always narrated in such a distinctive way. Infotainment stands for information and entertainment, however is there really information within? Yet, infotainment always articulates it self as the source of news concerning celebrity. Then, how is news constructed? Let us start by define what infotainment is. Information, as defined by dictionary.reference.com is " knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance ". In this definition, fact really counts. While entertainment means " the act of entertaining; agreeable occupation for the mind; diversion; amusement ". to conclude, infotainment means presenting amusing news. Or as once again, citing from dictionary reference:  "  television   or   radio   programs   that   treat   factual   material ...

It is one of my assignments during American Media class last year. I uploaded the file to scribd. Then, Iink it here. It is not a copy paste work, it is mine. So please do not copy paste it. American Idol Analysis

It's been quite sometimes that i had this idea struck in my head, but i had no idea where to share my idea. But, i remember that i once created a blog long time ago and i forgot the password. After trying to recover my password, i finally am able to access it again. Well, that's a bad introduction right?  Upin dan Ipin [1] Within the last 6 - 5 months, Indonesian people have new idolized TV program. It is Upin dan Ipin , aired on TPI everyday at 15.00. The interesting point is that this program is actually a product of Malaysia. For information, Indonesia - Malaysia relationship was not pretty good last year due to some cultural problems. Yet, this program is widely accepted in Indonesian society. I am then interested in analyzing the reasons why it is successful. Upin dan Ipin tells about the life of twin brothers (Upin and Ipin). They are may be around 6 - 7 years old. The show tells about their daily activities such as in school, home, and market. They play and stud...