Mustang : Translating Willful Youth Hardback
by Elif Akcali, Cuneyt Cakirlar, Ozlem Guclu
Part of the Cinema and Youth Cultures series
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This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village. The film’s familiar art-house style, and its universalising focus on female coming-of-age and feminist dissent, resulted in celebratory reviews from journalists and scholars of world cinema.
Meanwhile, Mustang’s framing of youth in the Turkish national context, and its representation of gender, divided Turkish film critics and cultural theorists.
These divisions led to a debate that questions the politics of transnational feminism by criticising the film’s failure to capture the local intricacies of the politics of gender and youth.
While this book aims to locate Mustang within the intersection of emerging female and youth narratives in the cinema of Turkey, it also provides a critical understanding of the differences in Mustang’s local and global reception.
This focus on the geopolitics of representation informs the diverse criteria this study uses to evaluate Ergüven’s stylistic choices. Engaging with both Anglophone and Turkish literature in youth cinema and gender studies, the book makes an original contribution to current debates on national/transnational cinemas and gender/youth studies and is an accessible reference for graduate and undergraduate study of contemporary film. Elif Akçali is Associate Professor in Film and TV Studies at Kadir Has University, Turkey.
Her research focuses on film aesthetics, videographic criticism, non-fiction film, and gender/sexuality studies.
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- Pages:114 pages, 23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/12/2022
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:114 pages, 23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/12/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367543136