Negotiating Modernity: Intersections and Complexities of Gender, Nation, and Modernity in Turkish Migration Cinema (1960s–2000s)

• In Event: Feminism and Pop-culture

Brief Overview

This study analyzes 25 Turkish migration films from the 1960s–2000s to examine how contrasting portrayals of Turkish and European women reveal how gender, nation, and modernity are constructed, contested, and negotiated in Turkey.

Author

• Dilek Cakir, Social Sciences University of Ankara