Fluiditas Antara Maskulinitas Dan Femininitas: Representasi Waria Dalam Film Dokumenter Dan Fiksi

The growing visibility of waria/male to female transgender has become one of the do? dominant features in Indonesia’s contemporary film industry. The research examines three waria films: Tony Trimarsanto’s Renita?Renita (2006), Kukuh Yudha Karnanta’s Ngudal Piwulang Wan? du (2009), and Benyamin Sueb’s Betty Bencong Slebor (1978). Two basic research questions are, firstly: how is the fluidity of masculinity and femininity represented; secondly how do the waria per?ceive themselves (self?identity) in a heterosexual culture. Queer film theory will be used in analyzing the film diegesis. The research finds the fluidity and continuum of the waria main characters in de?fining the meaning of the self and their bodies. This fluidity offers a playful negotiation to the essen?tialist concept of gender binary system.