Sexist languages in "pitch perfect" movie series

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Fandari, Ayu (2021) Sexist languages in "pitch perfect" movie series. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis examines sexist languages in “Pitch Perfect” movie series: Pitch Perfect (2012), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017). This thesis aims to find out types of overt sexism and indirect sexism in “Pitch Perfect” movie as the data. The data were the form of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences from those movie scripts. The researcher uses the theory of types of sexism by Mills. This thesis uses a descriptive qualitative method and uses the human instrument to analyze the data. In the data collection, the researcher downloaded the movie and its English subtitle. Second, the researcher watched the movies to discover what the movies are about. Later, the researcher transcribed the subtitles to Microsoft Word to make it easier to analyze the data. Then, the researcher identified, coded, classified, and analyzed the data. As a result, the researcher found 81 data. A total of 62 data are overt sexism. From the types of overt sexism, the most common type is Insult Terms for Women, amounting to 21. The other 19 data are indirect sexism data, and the most frequently occurring data is Conflicting Messages, amounting to 10.