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. In this context, the
attitudes of female characters towards life in the film narrative, public and
private spaces, the character traits they represent and their approach to the
phenomenon of death will be discussed based on the article of the feminist film
theorist Teresa de Lauretis entitled Rethinking Women’s Cinema: Aesthetics and
Feminist Theory (1985). The presentation of the death phenomenon that the story
takes to the focus center is opened up for discussion with the concept of
anamorphosis, which Slavoj Zizek interpreted based on Jacques Lacan. In this
study, both the presentation of female characters in the narrative and the
making sense of the death phenomenon by the characters are questioned with the
concept of anamorphotic view. In this context, the study aims to question the
relationship between female characters and death with a philosophical approach
and to enable the thinking of the representation strategies of characters from
multiple perspectives.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | May 10, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Özel Sayı (1) Mayıs 2019 |