Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap

Local scholars rarely debate the position of gender in animated media. Significantly, each gender image displayed has its own ideology, either in the form of animated works, or those influenced by the doctrine of hegemony and status quo. This study therefore, analyses gender representation in Mal...

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Main Author: Ugap, Catherina
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Language:English
Published: 2020
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spelling my-uitm-ir.607112022-05-31T07:29:17Z Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap 2020-11 Ugap, Catherina Animation (Cinematography) Local scholars rarely debate the position of gender in animated media. Significantly, each gender image displayed has its own ideology, either in the form of animated works, or those influenced by the doctrine of hegemony and status quo. This study therefore, analyses gender representation in Malaysian television animation. The purpose of this study is to identify the types of gender representation evident in Malaysian television animation and to analyse the relationship between gender images portrayed and its formation influenced by social constructs. The research applies a text analysis approach that uses content analysis through data collection from video selection and video retrieval to obtain information and data from the selected samples. There are five animated samples, of four episodes each that have been selected based on the popularity of animation on Malaysian television. The study reveals gender patterns evident in the television animation that mostly use the characters of five to twelve year old boys as the main characters. In addition, the construction of the male and female genders are divided based on their characteristics and roles. In terms of animated storytelling theme, the background or setting of the animations are in the village but of modern urban residentials. The animations also maintain the concept of multi-racial and plural societies in the narrative of the storytelling. It is hoped that this study can be used as a benchmark to produce future animation that is diversified in its representation of characters whilst empowering female characters as its protagonist. 2020-11 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60711/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60711/1/60711.pdf text en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Film, Theatre and Animation Wan Yahaya, Wan Aida (Dr.)
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Wan Yahaya, Wan Aida (Dr.)
topic Animation (Cinematography)
spellingShingle Animation (Cinematography)
Ugap, Catherina
Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap
description Local scholars rarely debate the position of gender in animated media. Significantly, each gender image displayed has its own ideology, either in the form of animated works, or those influenced by the doctrine of hegemony and status quo. This study therefore, analyses gender representation in Malaysian television animation. The purpose of this study is to identify the types of gender representation evident in Malaysian television animation and to analyse the relationship between gender images portrayed and its formation influenced by social constructs. The research applies a text analysis approach that uses content analysis through data collection from video selection and video retrieval to obtain information and data from the selected samples. There are five animated samples, of four episodes each that have been selected based on the popularity of animation on Malaysian television. The study reveals gender patterns evident in the television animation that mostly use the characters of five to twelve year old boys as the main characters. In addition, the construction of the male and female genders are divided based on their characteristics and roles. In terms of animated storytelling theme, the background or setting of the animations are in the village but of modern urban residentials. The animations also maintain the concept of multi-racial and plural societies in the narrative of the storytelling. It is hoped that this study can be used as a benchmark to produce future animation that is diversified in its representation of characters whilst empowering female characters as its protagonist.
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author Ugap, Catherina
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title Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap
title_short Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap
title_full Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap
title_fullStr Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap
title_full_unstemmed Gender representation in Malaysian television animation / Catherina Ugap
title_sort gender representation in malaysian television animation / catherina ugap
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Film, Theatre and Animation
publishDate 2020
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60711/1/60711.pdf
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