Abstract
This article focuses on the representations of women alongside the social and historical background of Turkish cinema from the 1980s through the early 1990s. In the following section, I articulate the political events in the 1980s - the early1990s and its impacts on Turkish society and cinema. I delve into the modernist representations of women in the 1980s cinema to analyze women’s gender codes (based on social/cultural and cinematic codes). Finally, in the last section, I examine Atıf Yılmaz’s cinematic images of women in his films and analyze two of his films A Sip of Love (1984) and The Night, Angel and Our Gang (1994) in terms of gender codes.
Highlights
This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press
All the activities of the Left and Right political parties were halted by force, which created a period of depoliticization
Murders, tortures, and death sentences were some of the penalties imposed on people, especially those engaged in politics
Summary
The shifts in women’s representations and the emergence of women’s films in Turkish cinema were the result of social and political conditions in the 1980s. Two of his significant films, A Sip of Love (1984) and The Night, Angel and Our Gang (1994), are critically analyzed in terms of the representations of women and the discursive effects of society on the establishment of women’s gender codes.
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