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REVEALING ORIENTALISM AND OCCIENTALISM IN AVATAR: NA’VI CONQUEST THROUGH ITS DISCOURSES
Hermawan Adi Prasetya

Last modified: 2022-04-06

Abstract


The film entitled Avatar:  Na’vi Conquest (2009) is a science fiction movie that set in the year 2154 in which human look to colonize the Pandora Planet because the human race has depleted the resources on the earth. Pandora is a Planet that densely forested and inhabited by a species called Na’vi, the indigenous people of Pandora who are ten feet tall blue skinned. The human invades Pandora in order to exploit Pandora. It causes the indigenous people do the fight against to the human. This paper aims to portray the Orientalism and the Occidentalism in Avatar:  Na’vi Conquest (2009) film through its discourses. This paper applies the theory of Orientalism and Occidentalism by Edward Said. This paper employs descriptive qualitative method. The object of this research is Avatar:  Na’vi Conquest (2009) film by James Cameron. The data collection is done by doing the library research. The researcher does three steps in data analysis. The first step, the researcher watches the film for several times. The second step, the researcher selects and sorts the discourses containing Orientalism and Occidentalism. The third step, the researcher analyses the data by applying the theory of Orientalism and Occidentalism by Edward Said (1978). The results of this study show that there are some discourses that portray the Orientalism by the human to the  Na’vi and the Occidentalism by the  Na’vi toward the human and the representation of the human and the indigenous people through the Orientalism and Occidentalism in Avatar:  Na’vi Conquest (2009) film.


Keywords


postcolonialism; orientalism; occidentalism; Avatar

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