Lingua Susastra
Vol 1, No 2 (2020)

The Manifestation of Classism in the Astro Boy Animation

Yessi Ratna Sari (AMIK Mitra Gama)
Genta Iverstika Gempita (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Jan 2021

Abstract

Utopia is an appropriate word to describe about the ideal, worthy, and perfect life depicted in a city called Metro City in the Astro Boy animation. This study examines the animation movie Astro Boy and how the world that is being told in the works could be defined as Utopian world like it is being described through the movie. The purpose of this study is to proof whether the setting successfully conveyed the Utopian world or whether it still has some deficiency as Utopian is known as impossibly perfect world to be created. The corpus of this study is the movie of Astro Boy focuses on the setting and relationship between human kind and robots. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method which describes social phenomena by conducting in-depth understanding and analysis. The aims of this research is to analyze more deeply the picture contained in the animation, which shows how humans and robots are able to create a new world also coexist. Moreover, the conceptual framework that will be use is the theory of Capitalism and Classism in order to examine the setting of Utopian world.

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Journal Info

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LS

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Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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Lingua Susastra (2746-704X) menerima naskah orisinal yang memuat kajian Linguistik, Sastra, Budaya dan Pembelajaran Bahasa yang ditulis dalam bahasa Indonesia, Melayu maupun bahasa Inggris. Bidang Linguistik meliputi cabang makro dan mikro linguistik; Bidang Sastra meliputi kritik sastra, teori ...