Neoliberalism In The Purge: Anarchy (2014): A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This thesis investigates the ideology of neoliberalism in The Purge: Anarchy. This study applies Multimodality by Kress, Systemic Functional Grammar by Halliday, Systemic Functional Visual Grammar by Kress and Van Leeuwen and the concept of neoliberalism by Harvey. This study is a qualitative research. First, this study applies Generic Structure to find out the structure of the movie. Then, the data is collected based on neoliberal phenomenon occurred in the scene. After the data are collected, the data are analyzed by using Systemic Functional Linguistic and Systemic Functional Visual Grammar. Then, the result of the analysis is interpreted by combining them with the concept of neoliberalism by Harvey. The result of the analysis shows that the movie portrays neoliberalism. According to Harvey, there are four stages of accumulation by dispossession. However, there are only two practices of accumulation by dispossession. Furthermore, neoliberalism found in this research is portrayed as a destructive ideology since the policy brings many disadvantages to poor people.