Challenge towards War as Grand-Narration Represented in Studio Ghibli’s Film Graves Of The Fireflies

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Grand-narration, Semiotic, War, Scene, Binary, History

Abstract

During World War II, the world is in a blink of chaos with the rise of AXIS power where Japan created propaganda that justified their attack to implement their Ideology as form of international fascism. This study aims to explain Graves of the Fireflies idea as a challenge towards war as a grand-narration that turned out suffers its citizen and become the research question of this paper. Binary opposition, Seita vs Society, as structure and relation to its historical setting and condition of surviving during World War II qualitatively become the data of this inquiry. This study uses Leotard Grand-narration as its theoretical framework and Semiotic approach to see how every scene generates meanings that challenge the war as Grand-narration; this paper reveals how war as Grand-narration justified the mistreatment and hardship of the characters Seita and Setsuko. An important implication of this study is the need to understand the horror of war impacting the under-privileged society as world vision seen in the characters timespan in the film

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Nursyamsi Aji Pamungkas
AU  - Dwiky Juniarta
AU  - Mohammad Ikhwan Rosyidi
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Challenge towards War as Grand-Narration Represented in Studio Ghibli’s Film Graves Of The Fireflies
BT  - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 86
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.16
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