Proceedings of the 2nd International Media Conference 2019 (IMC 2019)

Reception Analysis of Related Audience by Watching “Sexy Killers” the Documentary Film

Authors
Dionni Ditya Perdana
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Dionni Ditya Perdana
Available Online 31 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200325.009How to use a DOI?
Keywords
documentary film, coal mines, Reception Analysis
Abstract

“Sexy Killers” is a documentary film whose occurrence steal public attention and caused much controversy. “Sexy Killers” tells the story of coal mining is still a compelling business in Indonesia despite endangering environmental conditions. The Film also displays the number of state officials involved in coal mining, some of which surprised the audience. Uploaded by “Watchdoc Image” Youtube channel on April 13, 2019 only intermittent four days before the elections, “Sexy Killers” successfully pulled about 27 million views. That documentary film become a public discourse, especially related to the group of entrepreneur and government employee who’s a lot of contact with the sector. So this research interesting to study and analyze how messages are captured on the film’s audience. From the research, we concluded that the documentary film “Sexy Killers” offers meaning dominant or preferred reading is about the irony of a conflict of interest between the government and bussinesman that have an impact on people’s lives About a coal mine or coal plant. The varian of meaning that found: (1) There is no oppositional reading, (2) One of the informants perform interpretation with such meaning dominant offered media texts (dominant reading), (3) Most of the informants was negotiated reading, the reading of the meaning of meaning dominant approach but include criticism or a different outlook on certain parts of the documentary film.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Media Conference 2019 (IMC 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 March 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-943-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200325.009How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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