Özet:

Cinema, which is an urban entertainment, became known in Mardin through the People's House Cinema and changed into the most important entertainment of the city with the private cinemas opened in the fifties. In the study, the cinema experience and the practices of going to the cinema of Mardin’s women in the 1960s-1970s were examined through in-depth interviews. As a result of the examination, it has been seen that cinema means an exit to the public space for the women of Mardin. It has been determined that cinema is associated with going out, socializing and being visible for women who are not frequently seen in the public sphere in the examined period. In addition, it was concluded that cinema, which is a gendered semi-public/semi-private space with women's matinees, reproduces patriarchy and inequality in urban space. With the women's matinee, the cinema turns into a semi-private semi-public space, in other words cinema become as a gendered space. So, in this case, cinema transform as means that reproduces inequality in urban space. After September 12th 1980 Military Coup, the changes in the country are reflected in the cinema. So, women and family who are the most important target audiences of Turkish cinema, rupture from cinema and had been turned movie theaters into homosocial spaces. This change and rupture are also seen in Mardin, women stop to going to the cinema and the important entertainment place of the city, the semi-private semi-public space for women, are turned into coffee houses.

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