| dc.description.abstract | This research is an interpretative research, employing case study design.
Since, this research was conducted to explore and derived well-elaborated
understanding about gay community in Indonesia during 2000s to 2010s depicted
in Indonesian films as well as to know the dynamic of how they were treated and
seen from time to time by using the perspectives stemmed in the films, then to
facilitate the process of fulfilling the sets of inquiries in this research, I considered
the research model the most appropriate option to be exercised.
Six Indonesian gay films were purposively chosen with six considerations
viz. (1) they should be compatible with the research topic; gayness in Indonesia, (2)
it was legitimized by the abidance of the representative gay content in the film be it
as the major or minor storylines, (3) they should be Indonesian films, (4) they
should be directed by Indonesian directors, (5) they should be presented in
Indonesian contexts, and (6) they should be released in the 2000s – 2010s. The
complete information about the films would be presented in the following table.
The data in this research were collected by using direct observation and
documentation. Observation method was used in this research to garner fruitful data
taken from the dialogues and the pictures in the film gay scenes in the gay scenes
in the films being scrutinized in this research and the social perceptions towards
gay people in Indonesia. Documentation was used to compile the audience’s
opinions concerning the gay scenes in the selected films; their thoughts, their
commentaries, their reaction, and the screenshots of how the gay scenes re-shape
their attitude and perceptions towards gayness taken from YouTube commentary
sections and other online resources.
The data analysis was done by using the flow of analysis suggested by
Fairclough in his model of CDA which embraced three layers of analysis namely textual analysis, discourse practice analysis, and sociocultural practice analysis. In
textual analysis, the representative gay dialogues and scenes in the selected films
were deeply analyzed. The dialogues would be analyzed linguistically which in the
process they were referred to the context so that it could produce meaningful and
contextual interpretation. There were some elements in the film scenes which would
be used to yield a comprehensive result of this first analysis in Fairclough’s CDA
model such as the gesture, shot, and also the background music accompanying the
scenes. Those elements would be scrutinized collectively to encode some groups of
representation of gay people in Indonesia. in the discourse practice analysis,
Information regarding the producer of the films would be compiled from a number
of articles and the commentaries from the audience on the films would be acquired
from the commentary section on YouTube as well as from news articles. The
accolades and the number of the films audience would also be considered in this
analysis. Lastly, in the sociocultural practice, supporting articles which discussed
the matters about how the gay community’s endeavored to show their identity
would be collected to fulfil this layer of analysis. In addition, the articles speaking
about how they were treated from time to time by their surroundings were also
considered in this layer of analysis. | en_US |
