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- Title
From Turkish greengrocer to drag queen: reassessing patriarchy in recent Turkish–German coming-of-age films.
- Authors
Berghahn, Daniela
- Abstract
This article explores the critical reassessment of one particularly prevalent ethnic stereotype in Turkish–German cinema: the stereotype of the oppressive Turkish partriarch. Comparing Yasemin (1988), a much-cited, early coming-of-age film made by German film-maker Hark Bohm, with three recent features made by young Turkish–German film-makers – Sülbiye Günar's Karamuk (2002), Ayse Polat's Tour Abroad and Züli Aladag's controversial Rage (2006) – it examines father–daughter and father–son relationships and traces how these films reaffirm or invert the clichéd image of the domineering Turkish father who is out of touch with German majority culture. Drawing on Kobena Mercer's concept of the dialogic imagination, the article investigates whether these cinematic representations of the vilified or idealized father promote social change through ‘a multiplication of critical dialogues’ or whether they simply reiterate dominant ‘discourses of domination’ (Mercer 2003).
- Subjects
TURKEY; COMING-of-age films; PATRIARCHY in motion pictures; YASEMIN (Film); KARAMUK (Film); TOUR Abroad (Film); RAGE (Film : 2009)
- Publication
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1474-2756
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ncin.7.1.55_1