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Resignifying the mainstream: transgender embodiment in cinema in Turkey

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Critical and Cultural Studies.
dc.contributor.advisor Baş, Işıl.
dc.contributor.advisor Erdoğan, Nezih,
dc.contributor.author Şeker, Berfu.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T13:49:32Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T13:49:32Z
dc.date.issued 2011.
dc.identifier.other CCS 2011 S45
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/19592
dc.description.abstract This study focuses on the mainstream representation of the transgender phenomenon in the cinema of Turkey during a forty year period starting from the 1960s. In studying these images, the main argument of this thesis is that although mainstream cinema has been conceptualized as incapable of producing meanings that are anti hetero-patriarchal; factors such as audience reception, textual incongruity and directorial intentions might produce ambiguities in order to trigger subversive readings and identifications with these images. By reaching masses of audiences, mainstream representation of transgender embodiment might offer a possibility that might challenge the binary thinking and normative identificatory mechanisms. Conceptualized within their specific historical milieu and in relation to each other, these images also refer back to a historical subconscious in which the repressed desires return back to haunt the heteronormative binaries of gender and sexuality. Reading these films through gender parody, masquerade, heterosexual melancholia, shame and transnational circulation of transgender images, this study explores the relation between performance and performativity in order to resignify the mainstream from within.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Transgender people -- Turkey.
dc.subject.lcsh Transgender people in motion pictures -- Turkey.
dc.title Resignifying the mainstream: transgender embodiment in cinema in Turkey
dc.format.pages vii, 145 leaves ;


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