Embodied Cinema: Feminist Imagination in Film Phenomenologies

Yıl 2022, Cilt: 13 Sayı: 1, 203 - 219, 25.04.2022

Cansu Yılmaz

Öz

This review aims to provide an overview of the emerging field of feminist film phenomenology. While film phenomenology has yet come into its own as a distinct, established, and institutionalized field, in the past two decades a considerable body of research—often produced by women researchers, and mostly by feminist theorists, in dialogue with one another—has embraced a phenomenological approach to the study of film. Feminist film phenomenology transcends the strict disciplinary approach and traditional academic understandings that have long marked the study of film, instead employing a transitive and flexible structure that situates the field between the disciplines of feminism, phenomenology, and film theory. This field of study is fundamentally based on the effort to understand film through embodied and situated experience. This review follows this effort through an examination of recent research and an exploration of feminist film phenomenologies that eschew narrowly singular methodologies to expand into multiple, inclusive, and intersectional perspectives.

Anahtar Kelimeler

embodiment, film experience, feminist film, film body, intersectionality

Bedenselleşen Sinema: Film Fenomenolojilerinde Feminist İmgelem

Öz

Bu yazı, son yıllarda gelişmekte olan feminist film fenomenoloji hakkında genel bir değerlendirme sunmayı amaçlar. Film fenomenoloji, kendine özgü, yerleşik ve kurumsal bir alan olmaya başladığı geçtiğimiz yirmi yılda, genellikle kadın araştırmacılar ve çoklukla feminist kuramcılar tarafından üretilen ve birbiriyle diyalog içinde olan hatırı sayılır bir araştırmalar bütünlüğü ortaya çıkmıştır. Feminist film fenomenolojileri, geleneksel akademik anlayışa ve katı disipliner yaklaşıma özgü temelci düşünceyi aşar, feminizm, fenomenoloji ve film kuramı arasında konumlandığından dolayı geçişken ve esnek bir yapıdadır. Bu çalışma alanı, esasında filmi bedenselleşmiş ve konumlanmış deneyim ile anlama çabasına dayanır. Bu inceleme de güncel araştırmalar eşliğinde bu çabayı izleyerek tekil bir metodolojik girişimden ziyade çoğul, kapsayıcı ve kesişimsel perspektiflere doğru genişleyen feminist film fenomenolojileri araştırır. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

bedenselleşme, film deneyimi, feminist film, film bedeni, kesişimsellik

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