SILENT REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN THE NEW CINEMA OF TURKEY

Yıl 2010, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2, 71 - 85, 15.05.2019

Özlem Güçlü

Öz

This article focuses on the representational form of the silent female that emerged in Turkish cinema after the mid-1990s. It not only explores the thematic and formal tendencies that the silent female characters share, but also reveals the different forms of verbal and visual control that is maintained over them by the filmic elements. Drawing upon representative examples, different types of silence -silencing silence, resisting silence, complete silence and speaking silence- in the new cinema are discussed on the verbal and visual levels. A close reading of the film Gemide (On Board) is drawn upon in order to reveal in detail the thematic and formal conventions of the most prevalent type, silencing silence.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Female silence, representations of women, new cinema of Turkey

YENİ TÜRKİYE SİNEMASINDA SESSİZ KADIN TEMSİLLERİ

Öz

Bu makale, Türk sinemasında 1990’lı yılların ortalarında boy gösteren yeni bir kadın temsil formuna odaklanmaktadır: sessiz kadınlar. Makale, sessiz kadın karakterlerin tematik ve biçimsel açıdan paylaştıkları eğilimleri araştırmakla kalmayıp, aynı zamanda bu karakterler üzerinde çeşitli filmsel unsurlarla sağlanan söylemsel ve görsel kontrolün farklı formlarını da ortaya koymaktadır. Yeni sinemadaki farklı tip sessizlikler –susturan sessizlikler, direnen sessizlikler, mutlak sessizlikler ve konuşan sessizlikler- örnekler üzerinden, söylemsel ve görsel açılardan tartışılmaktadır. Yaygın olarak görülen tipin –susturan sessizliklerin- tematik ve biçimsel özelliklerini detaylıca ortaya koymak için Gemide filminin ayrıntılı okumasından yararlanılmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kadın sessizlikleri, kadın temsili, yeni Türkiye sineması

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