Abstract:

In this study "Bechdel Test" has been introduced, which is subjected to many international articles and thesis and opened its contributions to the feminist cinema and missing aspects up for discussion. Based on the Bechdel Test, which has not been mentioned on the research about Turkish cinema up to the present, it is aimed that the representation of women is treated in a new perspective. In line with this purpose, Bechdel Test has been applied to "The Top 10 Turkish Films", chosen with a referendum in 2014, held by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish Republic. Discourse of women, seen in these films is examined by text analysis method in order to allow to make a mutual assessment and to check Bechdel Test data. As a result of the study, it is stated that: it isn't claim that all films, passed the test don't have a feminist perspective due to the restriction of Bechdel Test's measurement type. In addition to this, it is drawn attention to the wide awareness of women’s representation in cinema, created by Bechdel Test, which formed by approaching to the relationship between cinema and women by a humorous perspective in 1985. It is important to see that many films, examined in the study haven’t been met even three basic conditions of Bechdel Test in the sense that the absence of women in Turkish cinema is displayed. In this study it is mentioned that this test is used in European countries and new film measures can be developed by using this test and also the necessity of creating social gender resentation criteria in Turkish cinema is presented.

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