Chechen and Blood Feud: Representation of Chechen during the First Chechen War in 1996 Russian film "Prisoner of the Mountain"
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https://doi.org/10.23887/jppsh.v7i3.73261Keywords:
Representation, History, War, Chechen, CultureAbstract
Film is an art that has been widely recognized, from media that is only for entertainment to its use as a propaganda medium. This research aims to analyze the representation of Chechen ethnicity in the 1996 Russian war. Drama film titled Кавказский Пленник (Kavkazkij Plenik) ‘Prisoner of the Mountains’. In this research, what will be analyzed is how a film represents an ethnicity and its culture that at that time was fighting against Russia, which is shown in the scenes in the film. This study will use the Cinema Study method to find out the main ideas of the film through plot, background, and characters, as well as cinematography through visualization and dialogue. The theory used is the theory of representation. To analyze the film, it will be divided into several parts to show the storyline of the film. In the year it was released, in Russia, a war known as the First Chechen War between the Russian Federal Government and the Chechen Separatists still occur. The film depicted the Chechens as a backward and highly religious people that only want to live their lives in peace rather than as enemies of the state, like the usual wartime film.
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