ABSTRACT
In the era of modernization and post-industrial society, the study of ageism focuses more on discrimination against the elderly because it assumes today’s society prefers young people than the old people. Ironically, in this era where the society prefers young people, at the same time, ageism against the young people occurs. Media is one of the parties which play a role in spreading and establishing discrimination against adolescents. Therefore, research is needed to analyze critically the popular media of teenagers. In this study, researchers will analyze critically the popular Indonesian teen film “Dilan 1990” to see how the ideology of ageism distributed through that film. This research will use critical paradigm with qualitative approach and I use critical discourse analysis of Teun A. Van Dijk as method of analysis. Primary data which will be used are verbal data from interviews and mediated data from the primary literature of the concepts, theories, and research method in this research. Besides that, secondary resources in the form of mediated data from the documents and visual data which related with this research topic will be used as well. The results showed that there is ageism against the adolescents in “Dilan 1990” movie. Furthermore, there is also attempts to build false consciousness in the life of young people, which relate to adult domination, romantic relationship and violence.
KEYWORDS
Ageism, Adolescents, False Consciousness, “Dilan 1990” Film