Women's New Cinema in Contemporary Turkey : As If We Were Free, As If a Beautiful Life Were Possible

For the first time in the history of cinema, Turkey witnesses a generation of female directors who occupy their own space within the New Cinema Movement.They claim an authority of their own and create a distinct cinema.However, recent scholarship on the cinema of Turkey predominantly conceptualises contemporary cinema in relation to the patriarchal discourse of male auteurs and recognises its female directors in a tokenistic manner.This book is the first academic work recognising this historical moment - the flourish of a women’s cinema in Turkey which disrupts the dominant discourses and brings another view to look at the post-millennial cinema.This study identifies the new production methodologies used by the contemporary female directors from Turkey in relation to socio-political and cultural dynamics and conceptualises these features under the term, ‘Women’s New Cinema’.It also undertakes feminist textual exegesis of selected case studies in these directors’ work.