Blurring the Gender Borders of Men and Women, Queer Theory Analysis on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Indrajaya Sartono
I. ABSTRACT
Analysing Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl using queer theory,
I want to show how movies are actually supporting the diminishing oppression that comes
from the mainstream heterosexual culture towards queer culture. Matching the actions and
images of characters inside the movie with queer’s idea of liminal space in gender discourse,
Sinfield’s counterhegemonic power of queer, and Bulter’s idea of performative gender along
with its fluidity, I found that the movie proved to empower queer from the beginning until the
end.
KEYWORDS: Queer, Gender, Heterosexual, Performativity, Liminal Space, Oppression,
