Browsing by Author "Bayrakdar, G. Deniz"

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Agnès Varda and Essay film
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Bayrakdar, Gülümser Deniz; Bayrakdar, G. Deniz
In this thesis study, I explore the essay film as a form, specifically in the cinema of Agnès Varda. By demonstrating how Varda practices essayistic filmmaking, I discuss some definitions and characteristics of the essay film. Since the essay film crosses the boundaries and manages to take place either outside the scope of documentary or fiction, I discuss the essay film as an autonomous form instead of integrating it within the field of documentary filmmaking. I examine Varda's essayistic filmmaking practices through the instrumentality of essay film theory, which takes its source from the literary tradition and flourishes through analyzing the cinematic essay that combines the verbal and the visual in its unique structure. I focus on the film Visages Villages (2017) in terms of how the essay film blurs fact and fiction, objectivity and subjectivity, and establishes a dialogical (Bakhtin, 1929) relationship between spectator and image. Before analysis of the film, I present an overview of the historical background of the essay film practices and essay film theory, and draw an analogy between the avant-garde roots of the essay film and the position of Varda in the 1950s avant-garde cinema and the French New Wave movement. The focus of my thesis also follows an essayist approach, shifting between theories, film history, and Agnès Varda's personal story. Since Varda's essayist filmmaking merges documentary and fiction, still and moving images, reality and illusion, past and present on the surface of photographs/murals and her own filmic journey, the analysis of Visages Villages allows me to examine - in addition to essay film theory - intertextuality, landscape in the cinema, and the pastness and presentness of photographic and moving images.
Bu Çağrıya Cevap Ver Yeniden Yapımlarda Kahramanın Cinsiyet Değişimi ve Kadın Temsili: Ghostbusters Analizi
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Yiğit, Baran Cem; Bayrakdar, Gülümser Deniz; Bayrakdar, G. Deniz
In this study, how female characters are represented in a popular Hollywood movie and in the remake of this movie is examined. In this context, the main question of the study has been whether this is the main purpose of gender-swap reboots, which at first glance seems to be a move to increase the representation of women in cinema, and whether it affects the representation positively both numerically and qualitatively. On the theoretical basis of the study, together with the studies on the concept of representation; Studies on marginalization and gender representations, representation of the other in cinema and gender representations are included. Not only gender but also racial representations were evaluated, and previous studies on classical hero narratives and remakes were also included in order to get to the basis of the narrative structure of the films. In the light of these theoretical foundations, content analysis has been made on the films and many elements such as character construction, symbols and dialogues have been analyzed. In the analysis of the films, apart from gender and minority representations, some marketing strategies in the films and the messages in the subtexts were also interpreted. In the conclusion part, it has been determined that the aim of gender-swap reboots in this movie example is to create discourses that appeal to the ideologies that dominate the political and social environment of the period, or to achieve box office success with productions that will be embraced by those who belong to these ideologies but will be criticized by those from the segments with opposing ideologies. It is among the findings that the primary aim is to benefit from the binary polarization created by the current political environment instead of increasing the number and quality of women's representation in cinema, and that they exhibit a structure that does not diverge from the classical discourses that marginalize or stereotype. Keywords: Represantation, Gender, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Remakes, Reboots.