An Anamorphotic Look at The Female Characters of The Movie ‘İşe Yarar Bir Şey’ and The Phenomenon of Death Within the Scope of Feminist Film Theory Cover Image

İşe Yarar Bir Şey Filminin Kadın Karakterlerine Ve Ölüm Olgusuna Feminist Film Kuramı Çerçevesinde Anamorfotik Bakış
An Anamorphotic Look at The Female Characters of The Movie ‘İşe Yarar Bir Şey’ and The Phenomenon of Death Within the Scope of Feminist Film Theory

Author(s): Gülçin Özdemir
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Evaluation research, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: Female character; feminist film theory; anamorphosis; representation;

Summary/Abstract: Cinema presents the representation strategies of female characters in a different way to spectators. One of the titles that feminist film theories bring into question is the representation mechanism of female characters. While female characters are presented in mainstream cinema in such a way that they serve the patriarchal view, whereas, in the films outside the mainstream, female characters are presented with such narrative strategies that these strategies allow the breaking of the discourses of the patriarchal view. While Pelin Esmer’s film İşe Yarar Bir Şey is a film narrative outside the mainstream, it presents different female characters apart from the stereotyped female characters of the mainstream cinema. The attitudes of the two female characters to life and the way they experience life are presented in such a way that they make people question the discourses of the mainstream cinema.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: Sp. Iss
  • Page Range: 493-517
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Turkish