Sunday, April 28, 2013

Proposal: Film Analysis: Screening immigrant Turkish women in movies




Patriarchal rule and pressure is in everyday life of Turkish immigrant women. It makes integration process  complex and difficult for females and increase the feeling of being in exile  within Turkish immigrant society. I will make film analysis in order to back my thesis. Two movies “40 Squaremeters of Germany” and “Head-On” represent how  does the pressure  change women psychology and behavior.  I want to show the reader that how lack of integration and the strictness of patriarchal rule can effect psychology of immigrant women.
My main objective while writing this paper is to analyze challenges of integration process within Turkish immigrant women and how these problems have been screened in the movies.  Especially Turkish women have faced much more linguistic, cultural,educational boundaries and pressure due to their  parents or husbands stereotypes against German community.
The introduction will consist of the background information about the immigration of Turks to Germany and how they import their own culture to the host country and also male pressure on female figures within the immigrant community .  In the body paragraphs I will analyze the two movie by focusing on the issue of sense of being exile and histeric behavior of women who are  under the pressure of dominant Turkish male characters. As theoretical frame work , I will mainly refer to Hamid Naficy “an Accented Cinema”, Ali Nihat Eken “Representations of Turkish Immigrants in Turkish-German Cinema”, Sarah Schaefer- Greg Austin-Kate Parker “Turks in Europe”, Janet Walker “Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry”.

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