The portrayal of the fighters’ American dream as seen in the documentary videos of American ‘MMA’ sports

Trishna Muhammad, Bara (2024) The portrayal of the fighters’ American dream as seen in the documentary videos of American ‘MMA’ sports. S1 thesis, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan.

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Abstract

American MMA sport has been well-known over the world, mainly in its famous fighters. Actually, some of them have dreams, familiarly called American dream. This undergraduate thesis describes the values of American Dreams for the fighters. This research focuses on analyzing the value of the American dream depicted from the stories or journeys of several MMA fighters in America to achieve their dreams and the development of sport documentary films in the past few years. Therefore, this research has two main objectives to describe the American Dream of MMA fighters and to analyze the portrayal of the fighters' American Dream in video documentaries of American MMA sports.
The research was under the qualitative method majoring an interdisipliner approach of American Studies. The primary data were documentary videos of American MMA Sports. Meanwhile, the secondary data were from books, article, and online source. These data were analyzed by the American Studies approach both social and culture, focusing an American Dream Theory and Theory of Popular Culture. The researcher watched the documentary videos several times by taking soome notes from dialogues and monologues. Then those keyword along with the citation were used for the source of data in analyzing.
The result of this research finds that American MMA sports as the part of popular culture because they are easily found in everywhere, give satisfaction, make the profit for promotion, and reflect American society of entertainment. Also, the second result finds that the fighters of MMA also have American Dream as follows life, liberty pursuit of happiness, individual freedom of self reliance, equality of opportunity, and material wealth along with hardwork.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keyword: American dream, popular culture, MMA sport, documentary videos
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisi / Prodi: Faculty of Letters (Fakultas Sastra) > S1-English Letters(S1-Sastra Inggris)
Depositing User: userperpus2 userperpus2
Date Deposited: 13 May 2024 02:46
Last Modified: 13 May 2024 02:46
URI: http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/63291

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