CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Michael Bezaleel, S.Kom., M.Cs.

VC833 Movie Analysis

Program Studi S1 Desain Komunikasi Visual
Departemen Teknologi Informasi Terapan
Fakultas Teknologi Informasi
Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana
TEXTUAL AND CONTEXTUAL

Contextual analysis focuses

Textual analysis focuses on on the surrounding conditions
the text itself and environment in which the
text was written
CONTENT AND CONTEXT

Context exists as the tempo, personal,

individualized belief systems and
Content exists as that which is really
attitudes under which the content is
being stated! SPOKEN, HEARD, READ!
being received toward possibility of
believability of the content.
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 ¡ Contextual analysis is analysis of the film
as part of a broader context.
¡ Think about the culture, time, and place of
the film’s creation.
CONTEXTUAL ¡ What might the film say about the culture
that created it? What were/are the social
ANALYSIS IN and political concerns of the time period?
Or, like researching the author of a novel,

MOVIE you might consider the director, producer,

and other people vital to the making of
the film. What is the place of this film in
the director’s career? Does it align with
his usual style of directing, or does it
move in a new direction?
 ¡ Where you will examine a film in terms of
its larger context — its relation to the
filmmaker’s body of work the circumstances
under which it was made, and its place in a
historical context
CONTEXTUAL ¡ From a directorial standpoint, for example,
you could point out certain directorial

ANALYSIS IN touches that fit in — or don’t — with that

director’s “style,” and that director’s history
and where the film fits in their career.
MOVIE ¡ You could also look at a film in terms of
politics, its treatment of race or gender
relations, or how it fits into the time when it
was made, the type of films being made then,
or the larger social currents going on at the
time.
 ¡ Understanding films through contexts mean
CONTEXTUAL knowing the conditions that surround the
filmmaking, how societal attitudes at the time
ANALYSIS IN that influenced its content to help the
viewers completely understand a film.
MOVIE ¡ Most filmmakers assume that the audiences
know something about the context of the
film’s story.
¡ If they may not, the filmmakers often give
background information through what is
called Title cards.
 ¡ Human freedom in expressing themselves is affected by the
CONTEXTUAL attitudes of society, where and when they live in and how the
political climate is.
ANALYSIS - ¡ This attitudes influence the filmmakers as a part of society.

POLITICS AND ¡ Some of the film’s character is portrayal of the society who
lives in a certain social and political climate.

SOCIETY ¡ For example, attitudes about homosexuality. Many people

disapproved of homosexuality and their characters were
seldom identified openly in American movies before 1968. As
western societies have grown more tolerant, gays have been
shown more often and more explicit in films. Since the late
1960s many filmmakers adapted society’s stereotypes of gays
to their films.
 ¡ Human freedom in expressing themselves is affected by the
CONTEXTUAL attitudes of society, where and when they live in and how the
political climate is.
ANALYSIS - ¡ This attitudes influence the filmmakers as a part of society.

POLITICS AND ¡ Some of the film’s character is portrayal of the society who
lives in a certain social and political climate.

SOCIETY ¡ For example, attitudes about homosexuality. Many people

disapproved of homosexuality and their characters were
seldom identified openly in American movies before 1968. As
western societies have grown more tolerant, gays have been
shown more often and more explicit in films. Since the late
1960s many filmmakers adapted society’s stereotypes of gays
to their films.
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DISKUSI ¡ Imperfect
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