Daftar Isi:
  • The strong patriarchal culture in India caused the condition of women there experience oppression in various aspects, so that women were only limited to the domestic sphere. In another sense, women there are only allowed to take care of household needs. This is the same as described in the Dangal film, where in this film there is discrimination against women who are not allowed to cross the boundaries of the traditional domain, which is doctrine of Indian society itself. But film as a media of communication is able to construct public opinion that the film contains the value of gender equality. Therefore, this study aims to describe how Indian women in media construction as female wrestler were told in the Dangal film. Based on the background, the formulation of the problem in this study is how Indian women in media construction as female wrestlers were told in the Dangal film based on the critical discourse analysis of the Sara Mills model. Media construction theory is capable of changing audience opinion with exposure the messages through film, because film is a media of communication that shapes social reality on the condition of cultural values. The methodology used is a critical paradigm with a qualitative approach, and used the Sara Mills critical discourse analysis method, which focuses on women who are biased in the text, by looking for the subject-object position and the position of the writer-reader. So that the reader interpreted the position of the figures marginalized in the text. The results of this study can be concluded that the media construction on the reality of Indian woman condition in the Dangal film about wrestlers is one of gender equality in accordance with the critical discourse analysis delivered by Sara Mills. But the awareness of female here is not born through his personal awareness, but is shaped by male figures, so that the position of women in this text is interpreted as a marginal position.