Representasi Perempuan ‘Berdaya’ dalam Drama Layangan Putus

Abstract

This research examines on how ‘empowered’ woman is represented in drama, Layangan Putus. Cinema or film often delivers the depiction of woman’s identity through patriarchal perspective and has no space to negotiate their identities within the culture. By using the theory of representation developed by Stuart Hall and concept of film studies, this study attempts to emphasize on how women negotiate their value and identity within the rigid culture of patriarchy in the cinema. This research also observes on how women representation also transformed by the time in the Indonesian cinema. Their representation shift into more fluid and quite resistance towards patriarchal values.