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[Commlist] New Book: Mustang: Translating Willful Youth

Mon Dec 12 16:04:17 GMT 2022





/Mustang/: Translating Willful Youth*
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This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film /Mustang/ (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village.

The film’s familiar art-house style, and its universalising focus on female coming-of-age and feminist dissent, resulted in celebratory reviews from journalists and scholars of world cinema. Meanwhile, /Mustang/’s framing of youth in the Turkish national context, and its representation of gender, divided Turkish film critics and cultural theorists. These divisions led to a debate that questions the politics of transnational feminism by criticising the film’s failure to capture the local intricacies of the politics of gender and youth. While this book aims to locate /Mustang/ within the intersection of emerging female and youth narratives in the cinema of Turkey, it also provides a critical understanding of the differences in /Mustang/’s local and global reception. This focus on the geopolitics of representation informs the diverse criteria this study uses to evaluate Ergüven’s stylistic choices.

Engaging with both Anglophone and Turkish literature in youth cinema and gender studies, the book makes an original contribution to current debates on national/transnational cinemas and gender/youth studies and is an accessible reference for graduate and undergraduate study of contemporary film.

Authors: Elif Akçalı, Cüneyt Çakırlar, Özlem Güçlü

Elif Akçali is an Associate Professor in Film and TV Studies at Kadir Has University, Turkey. Her research focuses on film aesthetics, videographic criticism, non-fiction film, and gender/sexuality studies.

Cüneyt Çakirlar is Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in film and contemporary arts.

Özlem Güçlü is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in cinema, cinema in Turkey, and cinematic animals.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Locating /Mustang/’s Willful Youth
1. Escaping ‘New Turkey’s ‘Wife Factory’: Towards a Contextualisation of the//Claim for Female Voice and Subjectivity 2. Framing the Willful Subject of Coming-of-Age: Cinematography and Stylistic Excess 3. Critical Reception: Paradoxes of National Belonging and Geopolitics of Film Criticisms
Conclusions

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The book is published within Routledge's Cinema and Youth Cultures series, which engages with well-known youth films from American cinema as well as the cinemas of other countries. Using a variety of methodological and critical approaches the series volumes provide informed accounts of how young people have been represented in film, while also exploring the ways in which young people engage with films made for and about them. In doing this, the Cinema and Youth Cultures series contributes to important and long-standing debates about youth cultures, how these are mobilized and articulated in influential film texts and the impact that these texts have had on popular culture at large.

Series Editors: Siân Lincoln and Yannis Tzioumakis

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For more information, please visit https://www.routledge.com/Mustang-Translating-Willful-Youth/Akcali-Cakirlar-Guclu/p/book/9780367543136 <https://www.routledge.com/Mustang-Translating-Willful-Youth/Akcali-Cakirlar-Guclu/p/book/9780367543136>.

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