2018
DOI: 10.24071/ijhs.v2i1.1524
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The Representation of Women Characters in the Movie the Breadwinner

Abstract: This article would like to present how women were defined in the movie, both by male and female characters. Mills (1998) provides a tool to help the readers understanding the style of a writer through her choices of words, sentences, and even in the discourse level. A novel based movie which won and was nominated in several awards, The Breadwinner, was full of portrayal of women in the setting of Afghanistan under the Taliban rule. The tragic story was beautifully wrapped under the animated movie produced to s… Show more

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“…The discussion shows that the visual elements contribute to the atmosphere for the conflict in the story, which has not been proposed by the previous studies of Darta & Kristina (2018) in "The Representation of Women Characters in the Movie The Breadwinner" and Almughni, Edward, & Fauzi (2020) in "Breadwinner's Propaganda within the English Foreign Movie's Depiction of Middle-East". Regarding depicting the setting of time, the movie also takes advantage of the disparities between bright and dark hues to imply the confinement of gender bias.…”
Section: The Depiction Of Gender Discrimination Issues Intersecting A...mentioning
confidence: 55%
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“…The discussion shows that the visual elements contribute to the atmosphere for the conflict in the story, which has not been proposed by the previous studies of Darta & Kristina (2018) in "The Representation of Women Characters in the Movie The Breadwinner" and Almughni, Edward, & Fauzi (2020) in "Breadwinner's Propaganda within the English Foreign Movie's Depiction of Middle-East". Regarding depicting the setting of time, the movie also takes advantage of the disparities between bright and dark hues to imply the confinement of gender bias.…”
Section: The Depiction Of Gender Discrimination Issues Intersecting A...mentioning
confidence: 55%
“…Parvana's disguise proves that masculinity is not limited be performed by males because gender performance is not fixed. Second, Darta and Kristina (2018) analyzed the movie using critical discourse analysis with the help of the feminist stylistics approach by Sara Mills (1998). Their paper, The Representation of Women Characters in the Movie The Breadwinner, discussed how the movie comes out with a brave female character, Parvana, who tries her best to provide for her family, yet her late older brother, Sulayman, saves her in her dreams.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Reflected the relationship between the person who has power with the person who is controlled (Ian, 2018;Goutam, 2021). There is a form of patriarchal construction in this film that puts men as subordinates and women (Priya et al, 2020;Poonam et al, 2020;Ian, 2019;Deta et. al, 2018).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are several previous studies about women in movies that can be found such as, Anjarwati (2008);Morrison (2014);Shahzadi (2015); Shapiro (2017); Darta and Kristina (2018); Yuan (2019); David (2020);and Alsaraireh, et al (2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%