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Breaking the Female Silence in the New Cinema of Turkey: A Case Study of Film Reception
Abstract
The mid-1990s witnessed the emergence of the 'new cinema' of Turkeywhich has introduced the cinema audience the newand multifaceted tendencies in terms of the narration, style and modes of filmmaking. However, for the purpose of this article, the most important 'newness' of the newcinema is the newlyemergentfemale representational form: silent females. The main goal of this article is to explore the female audiences' reception of the female silences manifesting on the new cinema's screen through the outcomes of the group discussions that the five female participants from Istanbul had after the viewing of the five selected films. The female participants 'read' various meanings of the female silences, and 'revealed' the thematic and formal components that are related to the depiction of the silent female characters. However, the most important outcome of the research is that the silent female characters in the selected examples became the medium for the female audiences through which they 'speak' of what they (not) want to see on screen.
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Turkish
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Authors
Özlem Güçlü
Publication Date
February 1, 2010
Submission Date
February 4, 2014
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Year 1970 Number: 12

