Keterpenjaraan perempuan dalam ruang kota di dalam Lost in translation (2003) dan The good girl (2002)

• Main Author: Asri Saraswati
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Indonesia 2009-04-01
• Series: Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
• Subjects: gender (gender), ruang (space), kota (city).
• Online Access: http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/149

The urban space offers more challenges to the female self. Two motion pictures,<br />Lost in translation (2003) and The good girl (2002), depict the issue of gender and<br />space by conveying the city as prison for the female characters. This article<br />analyses the urban space and argues that in the two movies, the female characters<br />struggle and eventually create meaning in the urban room. Applying feminism<br />and urban geography in analysing the position of female characters within the<br />city, the paper finds that the two films offer their perception on, and solutions to,<br />the imprisonment of women by the urban environment which is stereotypically<br />masculine.