Women in New Turkish Cinema : An Analysis of “Climates”, “Three Monkeys” and “Once upon a time in Anatolia”

• Main Author: Peksel, Öykü
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier 2012
• Subjects: new Turkish cinema; women; patriarchy; femininity; masculinity; film; feminist film theory; Mulvey; Semiotics
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77651

This study investigated the cinematic representations of women in ‘Climates’ ‘Three Monkeys’ and ‘Once upon a time in Anatolia’ created by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It explored the image of women and the ideologies that affects them in the aforementioned films. For the analysis, semiotics is used and feminist film theory is applied. The findings indicated that the women images are affected by patriarchal ideology. Female characters were portrayed as weak or weakened by men regardless of their representative social group. The results showed similarities to Mulvey’s argument and to Friedan’s definition of feminine mystique. Male gaze dominates the visual pleasures and the female characters showed similar features as described by Mulvey and Friedan.