RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN BAZ LUHRMANN’S AUSTRALIA MOVIE (2008): A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE

• Main Author: AMBARWATI, LIES
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/11663/
• Summary: The objective of this study is to reveal how Sarah and Drover strive against racial discrimination on a Marxist perspective. It is done by establishing two objectives: the first is analyzing the movie based on its structural elements and the second is analyzing the movie based on the Marxist perspective. This research is a qualitative research. Type of data of the study is text and image which are taken from two data sources: primary and secondary. The primary data source is the Australia movie directed by Baz Luhrmann released in 2008. While the secondary data sources are other materials taken from books and internet related to the study. Both data are collected through library research and analyzed by descriptive analysis. The study comes to the following conclusions. First, based on the structural analysis of each elements, it shows that the character and characterization, plot, setting, point of view, theme, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound, and editing are related to each other and form the unity into good quality of a movie. Second, based on the Marxist analysis, there is a close relation between the racial discrimination of Aborigine and the main characters struggle it by Marxist analysis and case, such as the negative prejudice of Aborigine people. This movie also describes against the stereotype of racial discrimination of Aborigine.