Women's New Cinema in Contemporary Turkey

As If We Were Free, As If a Beautiful Life Were Possible

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Pınar Fontini, RMIT University) Fontini, Pinar (Lecturer, Pınar Fontini, Pinar Fontini

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For the first time in the history of cinema, Turkey witnesses a generation of female directors who occupy their own space within the New Cinema Movement. They claim an authority of their own and create a distinct cinema. However, recent scholarship on the cinema of Turkey predominantly conceptualises contemporary cinema in relation to the patriarchal discourse of male auteurs and recognises its female directors in a tokenistic manner. This book is the first academic work recognising this historical moment - the flourish of a women's cinema in Turkey which disrupts the dominant discourses and brings another view to look at the post-millennial cinema. This study identifies the new production methodologies used by the contemporary female directors from Turkey in relation to socio-political and cultural dynamics and conceptualises these features under the term, 'Women's New Cinema'. It also undertakes feminist textual exegesis of selected case studies in these directors' work.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-30
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt394 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor168
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399538497

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Pınar Fontini is a creative screen practitioner-researcher who lectures in the school of Media and Communication, RMIT University. She works at the intersection of Middle Eastern Cinema and Feminist Film Studies. She is the editor, producer and director of the award-winning documentaries, Dream Workers (2021) and What’s the Name of the Film? (2022). Her articles have been published by prominent film journals Feminist Media Studies, Camera Obscura, Feminist Review and Senses of Cinema.

AcknowledgmentsList of Figures Introduction: Şehnaz, Elmas, Mina, and the Others Who Kill the Angel in Their Houses1. Burning Down the House: The Snapping Female Figure and Her Haphazard Wanderings2. Companions of Nesibe: Female Representation in Women’s New Cinema3. Her Resistance is Many: The Accented Filmmaking Practice in Women’s New Cinema4. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: The Political Aesthetics of Women’s New Cinema5. “Because Of Her, We Can”: Subjectivity and Collectivity in Women’s New Cinema6. Her Existence is Resistance: Being A Female Director in the Turkish Film IndustryAfterword: Filmmaking is Not a LuxuryReferencesFilmographyIndex

This beautiful and visionary book offers vital new research on the work of contemporary women filmmakers in Turkey. Pinar Fontini, herself a filmmaker as well as scholar and critic, offers a feminist approach which looks towards radical possibility. The heartfelt attention given to the stories of the films and the memories they hold, and to the voices of their creators, allows this also to be a work of advocacy.