The Representation of Women Irontown from Princess Mononoke

Abstrak

The study discusses the representation of Tataraba women in the film Princess Mononoke. The purpose of this study is to analyze the representation of women through a film semiotic approach. The subject used in this study is Princess Mononoke film. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The method used in this research is to use data cards. The theory used is Fiske's (1998) semiotic theory and Sugihara and Katsurada's (2000) gender roles theory. From the research results, it is known that 26 data with 6 forms of gender roles in the form of masculinity and femininity are seen in the representation of Tataraba women. There are 24 data on gender roles in the form of masculinity, namely having a strong will, being independent, persuasive, and good and honorable. Meanwhile, gender roles in the form of feminine have 2 data namely caring. The representation of Tataraba women reflected in the film Princess Mononoke is a benchmark in comparing the reality of Japanese women, who should be dominated by feminine gender roles but in fact, are dominated by masculine gender roles.