REPRESENTASI ISU JURNALISME DALAM FILM HOLLYWOOD (Analisis Semiotik dalam Film “Nightcrawler”)
Abstract
There are many journalism-themed movies which have colored the Hollywood film industry today. One of them is Nightcrawler movie that the theme of the profession of journalism in America. The profession of journalist in the film shows the difference between professional and unprofessional journalist. This film shows a character of journalist who is not hold on to journalistic idealism and always violates the ethic of journalism, because there is a missunderstanding of the profession of journalist. This study uses a model of Algirdas Greimas narrative analysis technique that uses two structure analysis, namely actantial model of birth structural analysis and analysis of the inner structure of binary oppositions. Greimas analogizes the narrative as a structure of meaning, like a sentence consisting of a series of words. Each word has a position and function of each. The results shows that Nightcrawler movie displays the media as the main focus behind the journalists who are bound or work under the umbrellas of the media. In the movie, several journalists are described as having a misunderstanding of the professionalism in journalism, as well as getting information or learning that is not in accordance with the profession of journalism. Media that give pressure and apply the inappropriate principles of journalism often makes the journalist leaves his/her idealism and violates the ethic of journalism.