Özet:

Violence against women, harassment, rape and murder has become a social wound that is unresolved in all countries of the world, especially in Turkey. According to the Human Rights Association, every four hours a woman in Turkey is exposed to male violence or is raped. In particular, the recent years, the intense appearance of rape incidents against women in the media can be regarded as a indicator of a awareness of this issue in society. The launch of social campaigns against violence, harassment and rape against women in many counties and the conduct of many research on this subject have also made it possible to keep the issue on the agenda and have opened forth the introduction of new legal regulations. Without a doubt, the role and effectiveness of the mass media in the public’s agenda of violence against women is an important dimension of the subject. At this point, it is one of the effective means of mass communication in understanding, re-production or forming the values of the society in which it is formed. In this context, cinema films are an important field of study, with the women’s representations they create and the effectiveness in the prevention of violence and the creation of social awareness. Because films are also effective in the formation of new values, as they reflect the values that exist in society. From this point with motion, the short fiction film “The End of the Circle” (2016) is based on the representation of the reality about this social problem with a cinematographic narrative. In this study, the aim of this film is to reveal how the female representations presented in the film are captured by the viewers.

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