Framed intimacy : representation of woman in transnational cinemas
Abstract
This study compares independent films from different countries (Turkey, Denmark,
Iran and Spain) in a transnational context. Making use of schizoanalytic concepts, it
presents an analysis of filmic space in relation to character construction in the
internationally acclaimed contemporary films: Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002), Talk to
Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002), Two Girls (Kutluğ Ataman, 2005), Allegro
(Christoffer Boe, 2005), The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001), Destiny (Zeki
Demirkubuz, 2006), Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006), Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) and
Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2006). I argue that these films are feminist texts, in
which becoming-woman of the female character deterritorializes the patriarchal ideal
of home(land) as a political statement. In the above listed films filmic space is never
configured as a harmonious unity of a righteous woman and a peaceful home. Despite
the pervading homelessness, the female characters turn the male dominated public
space into a habitable place through the filmic assemblages with space, objects and
other characters. I also argue that the homelessness and the problematic connection
between the female character and the storyworld posits a metaphor for the
disconnection between the auteur-filmmakers and their home(land)s.
Type
Thesis, PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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