Skripsi
White supremacy in Take The Lead the movie / Kusnita Sari
Abstrak
Media products like films are make-believe they do symbolise dominant social belief and images one of the most forceful images is the representation of people of colour as by nature inferior and less-capable than the White. Thus the non-White people need help from the White people to save them from the cage of inferiority. This study analyses how the characters in Take the Lead The Movie is categorized based on their skin colour or ethnicity the White (self) and non-White (other). This discrimination further segregates the White and the non-White into their living political socially and economically. They are simply portrayed in contrary the White has everything and the non-White nothing. Thus making the White becomes superior to the non-White and posing the latter under former s control and domination. The analysis reveals that the only non-White could escape their own inferiority is that by becoming the White. This could only be achieved through the process of introjecting white ideology into their own consciousness. Hence the proper and noble assignment of Pierre the main character of the movie is done through his ballroom dance teaching. Himself a non-White the process of spreading white ideology through ballroom dancing subjects Pierre to become the apparatus of ideology which in turn will subject others into the dominant system. Once established the teaching the ballroom dancing manifests itself into system s ideological apparatus that is able to create chain reaction in order to make society wholly white.