Children's Response to The Greatest Showman (2017) Movie: Reader Response Analysis

This research aims to find out children’s response to The Greatest Showman movie directed by Michael Gracey. The research has 3 objective study, there are (1) to know the dominant issues in The Greatest Showman movie, (2) to identify reader response theory applied in The Greatest Showman movie, and (3) to know the reason cultural response strategy is not applied by the reviewers. The research belongs to qualitative research. This research only focus on 73 childrens aged 8 until 17 years old. The sources of primary data is the responses of children from Common Sense Media website. The sources of secondary data are from some reference and material that related to this research. In analyzing the data, the present researcher employs descriptive analysis. The technique of data collecting are purposive sampling. By analyzing the theory applied, this research applied reader response theory presented by Richard Beach. The result of the research shows that (1) there are four dominant issues that arise by the reviewers in The Greatest Showman movie, (2) there are four response theory applied by the reviewers, and (3) none of the reviewers that deliver their response about personal banckgorund of religious or belief