HOMER SIMPSON: PROTOTIPE SUPERHERO BARU AMERIKA
Abstract
Hollywood films as one of America’s prominent industriesthat influence world’s popular culture can be seen as acultural discourse. Movie as a popular literature conveys itsmessage in its own unique ways. Myth is one of itsmessages. This study tries to reconstruct the myth ofpopular American superhero through an interesting newmovie: The Simpsons. How the new type of hero ismanifested is analyzed in this study to find out thecontinuities or changes in American’s collective dreams sothat the new American perspective over heroic mythologiescan be understood. Basically this study analyzes as well thepossibilities of the meanings conveyed by the media.Textual analysis is conducted to understand not only themeanings of the myth of the superhero perceived by theaudience but also the American characters inside the myth.The Simpsons seems to offer a new type of hero’s myth,which is very distinct from the previous type of popularsuperheroes as in Batman, Superman, or Spiderman.
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