REPRESENTATION OF THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN TURKISH CINEMA: AN ANALYSIS ON THE FILM OF SIBEL

Yıl 2022, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 4, 64 - 76, 31.01.2022

Gizem Çelik

Öz

Cinema, which is the seventh art, is also an important communication tool and is the product
of social structure. Social structure develops and changes cinema. Cinema, which grew and developed in the geography it developed, strives to explain and make sense of people, their ways
of expressing themselves, their relationship with other people and nature, in short, all their life
experiences. Pain, happiness, social events, memories, myths, stories and forms of communication constitute the basic subjects of cinema. At the same time, cinema also deals with individuals through the eyes of society. Especially the way the cinema deals with women is very
important because cinema reflects society’s view of individuals. Generally, the place of women
in patriarchal society and the roles they represent in cinema show parallelism with each other.
In this study, film Sibel (2018), which is a co-production of Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, and focuses on the female figure in society by putting the woman in the leading role, was
examined. The basic framework of this study is the social positioning of women. The freedom
struggle of a 25-year-old girl is told in the film, which takes place in Kuşköy, a district of Çanakçı
in Giresun. In this study, the story of a mute young girl who can only communicate with the bird
language unique to the region has been examined from a feminist perspectiv

Anahtar Kelimeler

Sibel, Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti, Feminist Perspective, Turkish Cinema