DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN CLINT EASTWOOD’S CHANGELING 2008: A SOCIALIST FEMINIST APPROACH

The major problems of this study is disempowerment of women in the society which is reflected in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling. The aim of the study is to analyze the film based on the structural elements and to analyze the film based on the feminist theory. In analyzing Changeling film, the writer uses the qualitative method and Feminist Perspective. The data sources are primarily data source, which uses the Changeling’s script written by Clint Eastwood in 2008, and secondary data source is biography, an essay, comment, historical information and other relevant informations. The method of collecting data is library research. The technique for analyzing is descriptive analysis. The outcome of the study shows the following conclusions. Firstly, based on the structural analysis indicated that each of narrative and technical element of movie have been related into solid unity. Secondly, based on socialist feminist depicted that women tend to be disempowered by patriarchal society. The last, the author wants to assert that everybody has strength and weakness regardless the power to be someone he or she wants