CAUSES OF LESBIANISM REFLECTED IN BOYS DON'T CRY MOVIE BY KIMBERLY PIERCE (1999): AN INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH

• Main Author: SAFITRI, ANY (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2011.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/1/COVER.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/2/Chapter_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/3/CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/5/CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/7/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/9/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/14083/11/Bibliography.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

The major problem of this study is to reveal the causes of lesbianism in Boys Don't Cry movie. The objective of this study is to analyze the movie based on its structural elements, and based on individual psychological perspective. In analyzing Boys Don't Cry, the writer uses qualitative method and Individual Psychological Perspective. The object of the study is Kimberly Pierce's Boys Don't Cry movie published in 1999. The primary data source is the movie and its script, and the secondary data sources are the other data related to the analysis such as the author's biography and some reference books. The method of data collection is library research by collecting and recording both of the primary and secondary data. The technique of data analysis used in this study is descriptive analysis. The study comes to the following conclusions. First, based on the structural analysis of each elements, it shows that the character and characterization, plot, point of view, setting of place and time, mise-en- scene, cinematography, editing, and the other technical elements have the unity and successfully relate to one another then finally are formulated into good quality of a movie. Second, based on the Individual Psychological analysis, it is evident that in this movie, Teena wants to be a man psychologically and physically although without sex-change operation.