A Semiotic Analysis on Icon, Index, and Symbol in Get Out Movie

Abstract

The problem of this study was ”What are the icons, indexes, and symbols in Get Out movie?”. There were primary sources and secondary sources in this study. The primary source used in this study was Get Out movie while the secondary sources were several books, journals, and articles to support this study. The objective of this study was to describe the icons, indexes, and symbols in Get Out Movie by using Charles Peirce's theory. This study used descriptive qualitative research. In collecting the data, the writer used library research, in which the writer went to find desirable references consisted of books, journals, and articles. In analyzing the data, the writer identified and classified the data first, then the writer did some reduction to the data. The writer only chose relevant data in several key scenes in the movie which were contributive to the plot and removed the redundant and unnecessary ones. After conducting the study, the writer found out that there were thirty signs in Get Out movie. The result showed that the thirty signs found in the movie were classified into three icons, twenty indexes, and seven symbols.

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“…);Syafei, Nurhadi, and Raturahmi (2017); andBaharsyah, Ardayati, and Triyogo (2020) Syafei et al (2017). with their data from an Indonesian film, Kawin Kontrak, along withBaharsyah et al (2020) with their American film, Get Out, as the data source, use Peirce's theory of icon, index, and symbol.…”

“…);Syafei, Nurhadi, and Raturahmi (2017); andBaharsyah, Ardayati, and Triyogo (2020) Syafei et al (2017). with their data from an Indonesian film, Kawin Kontrak, along withBaharsyah et al (2020) with their American film, Get Out, as the data source, use Peirce's theory of icon, index, and symbol. Nevertheless, Syafei et al additionally apply Hall's representation theory to find out how Sundanese culture is represented through the verbal and visual signs in the film, whereas Baharsyah et al merely focus on classifying and describing the icons, indexes, and symbols of the signs in the film without relating them to a particular issue.Paramuswari et al (…”