Woman Representation in Turkish Detective Series

In Turkish series, the audience watches so many representations of women. It is always so clear that woman has some trouble during her life especially if she works somewhere. And if she is a police officer, these troubles get more and more. She works in a very stressful place and has really hard times. The scope of the study is to examine woman representation in Şahsiyet mini internet series. In this study, the woman commissioner Nevra who is a character in Şahsiyet series, which was presented to the audience over the internet in 2018, was examined with the qualitative content analysis.

Space as a Means of Stigma for Women in Turkish Cinema After 2000

Today, when the Turkish cinema is checked in detail, it is seen that numerous issues are addressed suggesting that when a woman leaves her home where she spends her life with her husband, father, or son, there is a risk of encountering events that will “ruin” her honor. Therefore, when something bad happens to her—raped, lost her way, etc.—she cannot escape from stigma. In fact, the woman in the film transform to a representation that many women who leave the house in real life can be stigmatized. Thus, “honor-woman” connection in the eyes of Turkish society is reproduced through the “space-man” relationship. In order to introduce the purpose of the study, firstly, some information on the relationship among woman, space and stigma was given, then we made explanations on how the stigmatization issue of women in Turkish cinema from the beginning to the 2000s became effective. In the final part of the study which is the application phase, thoughts on women, place and stigma were presented through the film Mutluluk (2007) with the help of feminist criticism.

A Feminist Perspective Analysis of Gender in Cinema of Saudi Arabia

In this study, Wadjda (2012), directed by Haifa El Mansur, will be analyzed from a feminist perspective in the context of the concept of gender. Mansur demonstrates to the cinema audience through a 10-year-old girl that women get out of their passive positions and get their rights partially. In this study, firstly the social structure of Saudi Arabia and the position of woman, the concept of gender and feminist film criticism, which is the analysis technique of the film, will be examined and the position of women in Saudi Arabian society will be examined through Wadjda shot by a Saudi female director.

The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema

In the art of cinema, which fulfills the function of a “dream factory” with its male-dominated narrative structure, men are represented in active roles with their actions, while women in passive roles that do not or cannot interfere with the flow of events with their inactions. This perception, which dominates the cinema, showed a change with the reflection of intellectual context of the Second Wave Feminism to the films. In this sense, in the study, Fried Green Tomatoes, regarded as a feminist film example by movie critics and directed by Jon Avnet in 1991, was chosen as a sample. In the study, structuralist narrative codes that construct meaning in the film are analyzed in the context of feminist thought and film theory paradigms. In the film, the “strong female character representations,” which are placed in the center of narrative and positioned to advance the story, are subjected in the foreground; these characters also stand against the known stereotyped roles imposed on women by traditional narrative cinema.

Masculine Domination and Gender in Bourdieusian Sociology

In the study, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón's movie Roma was examined. The movie takes place in Mexico in the 1970s, at a time when the society demanded change. Instead of questioning the traumatic background of being abandoned by the father, the director focused on the maid of the house and a disaster that happened to her. Alfonso Cuarón, who shot the film in black and white, created it as the director, producer, editor, screenwriter, and cinematographer of the movie. The movie, which is about women's loneliness and gender, will be evaluated based on Pierre Bourdieu's statements on masculine domination.

A Woman Director in the History of Animated Film

Rapidly spreading computer technologies cause many classical art applications to disappear. One of these is the classic stop motion animation cinema. Animation film director Lotte Reiniger has an important place in the history of cinema both through her personality and films. The avant-garde style of the director puts her in the category of modern artists. Reiniger's technical and stylistic innovations in the art of animation are still important. In this study, the artistic life and film aesthetics of the Lotte Reiniger will be discussed and the elements that make it an auteur method will be examined through her animation films.

Representation of Women in the Connecting of the Public Space Area/Special Area

With the industrial revolution, the public/private distinction became even more acute. From the traditional point of view, those who make a living (men) by working outside the home in paid work are perceived as part of their participation in public life. Economically dependent people (women) were perceived as belonging to the private sphere. We see that the concept of private space is mentioned together with women. It is always criticized that the concepts of private sphere and motherhood limit women. The existing order is maintained by repeating these discourses in mass media such as cinema and television. In contemporary narrative cinema, however, this limitation of women is intended to be altered by addressing it with a different language or by going beyond conventional stereotypes. In this context, Mother! the film will be examined in the context of feminist film criticism through the representation of space.

The Language of Family Communication of Mother Character in Recent Films

It is seen that the mother character and strong female roles are included in the recent Turkish films. In this sense, it is seen that the roles of the mothers as the gatherer of the family are related to the communication processes within the family. The language and discourse of the mother character in the family communication processes were investigated by examining the representations of the mother character in cinema films and Turkish society. It has been researched that the mother character is mostly used in the cinema series through the representations of the family as binding, restorative, fusing, and solution producer in the family communication processes. It is also important to understand the discourse language and social change processes of recent cinema films about how the character of the mother's character in discourse language and its role in family communication processes are represented and included in the films. The representations of women in the films through the role of mother constitute an important research topic through the family.

Labelling Directors as “Women”

The subject of this chapter is the conditions of the film industry in Turkey and the effects of the invisible pressures of the male-dominated system have on female directors and their productions. The basic question to be analysed is whether the problems they face are related to their gender and patriarchal system. Interviews will be conducted with female directors in order to understand the processes of production they undergo within the industry, the factors which influence their narrative choices, as well as to unpack the meaning of what it entails to be a “woman”/“female” director.

Images of Women Resisting the Tide

Many popular movies reproduce dominant cultural life, dominant viewpoints, and norms that we encounter in everyday life. And we also see a public sphere where the discourse of men is displayed as more important, but women are displayed as inferior and powerless in the movies. Against this problematic approach of popular films, the feminist film theorists take this issue into public debate. This study focuses on the concept of social gender through the female characters presented in the movies from a general perspective.