Skripsi

Disney\'s Mulan: upholding misogyny / Tias Tanjung Wilis

Abstrak
ABSTRACT Wilis Tias Tanjung. 2008. Disney s Mulan Upholding Misogyny. Thesis English Department Faculty of Letters State University of Malang. Advisor M. Nasrul Chotib. Key words Mulan misogyny. Misogyny which dates back to the story of the Fall means the male hatred of women which allows men to create stereotypical images about women in order to keep women in subjection and at last maintain their power within the patriarchy. Misogyny allows men to oppress women by giving them no voice to define themselves. Since women do not have the authority to define and assert themselves they tend to agree on any definitions men have made about them they follow the path men have chosen for them no matter where it will end. Slowly women begin to believe that those definitions represent who they really are that becoming the second sex second creatures being responsible for and limited only to the domestic affairs are their destiny. Finally they denigrate their own sex and thus the culture can be kept male the patriarchy can be maintained and the power can always be obtained. This subject could be found in Disney s Mulan. Disney s Mulan is a cartoon movie adapted from a Chinese poem titled The Ballad of Mulan that dates back to the Southern-Northern Dynasty (AD 420-589) in which women were oppressed by the social codes of Confucianism. It tells about a Chinese feminist heroine Hua Mulan who disguised herself as a man to take her ailing father s place in the army. As the Chinese version Diney s Mulan is expected to be a movie of feminist. Yet it seems that the movie even conforms to misogyny. This study aims at uncovering misogyny in Mulan. The analysis centers on the usage of Film Studies looking at the details provided in the screen (mise en sc ne) shots angles lighting color movement sound and etcetera. The analysis is much influenced by the perspectives of Feminism and Cultural Studies by exposing identifying and challenging stereotypes of women found throughout the movie. Through the analysis it could be revealed that the movie upholds misogyny. The main character of the movie Mulan depicted as a free-spirited young woman in the beginning of the movie happens to be the most misogynistic of all. She chooses to come back to her patriarchal family rather than accepting the Emperor s offer to become a member of his counsel which is a strategic position to make a change for a better condition of women in her society. The movie conveys one message telling that a woman no matter how successful she is in other cultural domain must come back to her domestic place leaving any of her position in the public affairs.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rs 895.13 WIL d

Prodi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, 2008.

Deskripsi Fisik

vi, 52 hlm : il. : tab. ; 30 cm

Bahasa

No Reg

01518/KI/08

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang. 2008

Subjek

1. FIKSI CINA
2. FILM KARTUN

Pembimbing

1. MOCH. NASRUL CHOTIB

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