Abstract :
Daniel James Mailakay, representation of female beauty in advertising
Gizi Super Cream (Study of Semiotic analysis of advertisements on Kecantikan
magazines).
The study aims to examine in depth about the representation of the beauty
of women in advertising Gizi Super Cream in Kecantikan magazines. In a Gizi
Super Cream ads in Kecantikan magazines, women female beauty refers to the
female figure of Java.
This study uses the theory os semiotic Roland Barthes. In this semiotic
theory is devided into two parts, namely bookmarks (signifier) and (signified).
Barthes has levels of tagging the denotation, connotation and myth. The method
used in this research is qualitative method. With data collection through
documentation study, keperpustakaan, materials that can be used as a reference as
well as use of the internet.
The result showed that the representation of the beauty of women in
advertising Gizi Super Cream in Kecantikan Magazines tend to represent the
beauty of women by women of Java. In which there is the meaning of denotation
and connotation which then produces a myth. Denotation meaning that all that
appears in the ad, while the connotation that the natural beauty that radiates from
Indonesia. And the myth is the myth of beauty.
Keywords : Semiotics, Representation of female beauty