%0 Thesis
%9 Skripsi
%A PUPUT MAMI SAYEKTI, NIM. 11150034
%B FAKULTAS ADAB DAN ILMU BUDAYA
%D 2017
%F digilib:24384
%I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA
%K career woman, gender issue, semiotic, superiority, What Maisie  Knew
%P 59
%T THE PORTRAYAL OF SUSANNA  IN WHAT MAISIE KNEW MOVIE  A GRADUATING PAPER
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/24384/
%X What Maisie Knew is a drama movie contains social issues such as broken  family and gender issue. Related to women issue, this movie sets a character of  Susanna who plays the role as successful career woman along with her role as a  wife and a mother. Susanna is a woman but she is illustrated as dominance among  others. It prompts the researcher to analyze the depiction of Susanna. Thus, the  aim of this research is to find the meaning of the depiction denotatively and  connotatively. In revealing the meaning of the depiction, the researcher uses  semiotics theory by Roland Barthes. It explores the meaning of the depiction of  Susanna and the significance it. In analyzing the data, this research uses  descriptive qualitative method. As the result, the researcher finds that Susanna is  superior woman through her depiction of a career woman. The superiority is taken  from the representation of domination and masculinity in her, along with her  physically appearance as black fashion. All of those representations represent  power that emerges the superiority. It then delivers the significance that the  filmmaker wants to show that woman can be superior in society along with the  contradiction of being superior woman. This contradiction is illustrated as the  failure in family life. Thus, the researcher finds that woman is able to be superior  in society but she has to manage it to avert the failure.
%Z Mrs. Witriani M. Hum