Women and Turkish cinema : gender politics, cultural identity and representation / / Eylem Atakav

• Autore: Atakav Eylem
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4309561
• Soggetto topico: Women in motion pictures; Feminism and motion pictures - Turkey; Motion pictures - Turkey - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Women of Turkey: feminism and the 1980s' women's movement -- Historically framing women and Turkish cinema -- Representing career women -- Representing female desire and subjectivity -- Representing prostitution -- Representing widowhood and sexuality -- Women and new Turkish cinema.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military's intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics, cultural identity and representation.The central proposition of this book is that enforced depolticisation introduced after the coup is responsible for uniting feminism and film in 1980s Turkey. The feminist movement was able to flourish precisely because it was not perceived as politica
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and Turkish cinema
• ISBN: 0-203-81037-6; 1-283-86251-4; 1-136-68160-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462957903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media