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This study aims to analyze the shifting discourse of teen?s masculinity in Indonesian movies targeting adolescent from the period of 1970s to 2000s. In this regard, movie is considered as a social text which provides important cues regarding dominant discourse of masculinity in a certain period. This study focuses mainly on how discourse of teen?s masculinity is constructed in teen movies and how the discourse has interrelationship with social and political context in Indonesia. To be more specific, this study attempts to analyze the way in which teen?s masculinities are represented audio-visually in the chosen movies representing each decade. Afterward, this study attempts to identify and analyze shift on the discourse of teen?s masculinity from 1970s to 2000s.
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