This research is a qualitative study on a sitcom titled Tetangga Masa Gitu? with the analysis on the contents of the sinetron. This makes the society, as a consumer, became convinced that the newreality is a description of real life. Baudrillard established that hyperreality is a condition in which the reality that are presented by the media overtook the real world. However, in the process of construction there is a new reality presented by the media through soap operas. The shift on women representation is associated to how the men were represented in said soap operas, therefore this is a form of the role of the media in altering gender stigma in the society. If we look at Indonesian soap operas, there are not many of them that can manage to present a non-mainstream construction of female characters. This thesis identifies the female gaze, that is the opposition of the male gaze and the representation of men in films as a pertinent area that researchers should investigate.Įmergence of non-mainstream way of women representations in soap operas, where women are constructed as an independent individual, brought an impact to the patterns of relation between men and women. It is recommended that more female filmmakers should be supported off-screen especially in the Nollywood film industry who can paint positive images of women on-screen because this will greatly contribute to the elimination of gender disparity and the emancipation of women in the global sphere.

The thesis is anchored on the objectification theory and the male gaze theory and concludes that there is a similitude in Hollywood and Bollywood in their positive representation of women even though supporting actresses only get passive roles while in Nollywood women are still objectified even when the supporting actresses get active roles. The objective of this thesis is to comparatively analyze how women are represented in Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood 2019 films that have women occupying the major roles based on their physical appearance, dialogue and the roles they play using textual analysis. Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood film industries stereotype women and place them under the ‘male gaze’ as identified by feminist theorists like Laura Mulvey. The issues of sex, gender and representation have garnered a lot of researchers’ attention and continue to be topics of global concern.

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