CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Definition of Film
Film is a work of art and art culture which made up on a basis of cinematography by recording it on celluloid, video tape, video disc, and other
materials of technological invention forms, types, and sizes, as well as electronic or chemical processes other processes with or without sound, which can be performed or
displayed with a projection system, mechanical, electronic or other.
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According to Effendi Uchyana Onong, film is a powerful communications medium, not just for entertainment, but also for enlightenment and education.
According to Alex Sobur 2003, film is raised from the shadow of reality life that is experienced in daily life causing the tendency to find the relevance between the film
and the reality life. Even Jakob Sumardjo, from film and television center, stated that film serves as experiences and values
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. The effects of film is caused by the imitation of what he or she witnesses that deserved to be done by everyone.
Film is a technology utilized for the mass entertainment to spread up information and various messages in a broad scale besides press, radio, and
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Chaidir Rahman, Festival Film Indonesia 1983, Medan: Badan Pelaksana FFI, 1983, p.8.
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Aep Kusnawan, et. al, komunikasi dan penyiaran Islam, Bandung: Benang Merah Press, 2004, 1st edition, p.94.
television
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. Film included in a mass communication contains the aspects of entertainment, and education. The facts that implicitly presented in film are based on
the phenomena occuring in a community. Some of the theme of film focuses on the social problems, frustrations, pleasures, and joys of human relationship such as love,
friendship, marriage, divorce, family interactions, sexuality, and so on. Even, film is made in an imaginative way
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. Film has the ability to play the space and time, to develop, to lessen, to back
and move freely within the boundary of wide area. Film is viewed through visual pictures and real sounds that able to handle a variety of subjects. The elements found
in a film makes it an alternative form of art that has great demand in a society.
B. The Concept of Identity
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