GEMİDE FİLMİNDE ATAERKİ VE KRİZDEKİ ERKEKLİK ANLATILARI

This article analyses the representations of masculinity crisis in the male-centered narratives in Turkish cinema in the 1990s through Gemide (Serdar Akar, 1998). The first part of the article presents a brief literature review on the concepts of gender, gender roles and masculinity studies and highlights the gradual acceleration of the feminist movement in Turkey in the 1980s and its institutionalization in the 1990s. The second part of the article explores how the influence of the feminist movement and the intensified debates in the public sphere on patriarchal oppression, resulted in the representations of masculinity crisis in the 1990s Turkish cinema. In this respect, the article argues that male-centered narratives in the 1990s construct masculinity representations as fragile, vagrant and violent in a world that is dark, insecure and chaotic. Finally, through textual and discourse analyses, the article explores the ways in which Gemide constructs its male characters in relation to the modern state, family and consumption, and how it reconstructs patriarchy through female body.