Gender Relation in Pete’s Dragon Film: Ecofeminism Studies

Abstract

Women are believed to have deeper and stronger connection with nature than men. Women were culturally connected with nature. Therefore, because of this stereotype that evolve in society, there are differences toward how women and men interact with the nature. The object of this study is Pete’s Dragon film (2016), this film tells about the relationship between human and nature. This film showed that human exploit nature for economic purposes, for example, deforestation. And this film depicted that the characters which exploit the nature are lumberjack crews; meanwhile the character that help to save the nature is woman as the forest ranger, and men with some characteristics. To analyze this film, researcher use qualitative, narrative, and non- narrative method. By applying ecofeminism concept from Vandana Shiva to analyze Pete’s Dragon film, this study can reveal how gender as social construction are connected to the nature. This study also showed that Pete’s Dragon which is film for children and released in 2016 depicts that men and women react to environmental issues in their own way