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XXIIth Conference on New Directions in Turkish Film Studies: Cinema and Women

The 22nd edition of the New Directions in Turkish Film Studies (TFAYY) Conference will be held on 11-13 May 2023 with the title “Cinema and Women”. The conference, which will be hosted by Kadir Has University Department of Radio, Television and Cinema this year, consists of a program that discusses in detail the historiography of Turkish cinema, the culture of criticism, periods, stars, films made by women, films about women, production channels, labor force, past and present at the intersection of gender and cinema studies.

Spread over three days and consisting of a total of five academic sessions and three industry panels, the conference program will bring together people working in the cinema and also in the documentary industry, as well as cinema and television researchers, to share their views on the aforementioned issues in both theoretical and practical areas.

These industry panels will be made up of women filmmakers working behind the camera and will focus on solutions and suggestions on issues such as gender-based labor inequality in the industry, the balance in funding and support, and the structures of film and documentary production networks. In addition, two keynote speakers, Prof. Patricia White and producer Elhum Shakerifar, will present a global perspective on gender and cinema.

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A Current (2017-2021) Picture of Representation and Workforce”, a session will be organized to share the interim results of the TUBITAK project.

This research project aims to reveal the diversity and quantity of contemporary representations of women on Turkish screens and the female workforce behind the camera. To this end, all fiction films that were screened in theaters or national festivals in Turkey between 2017 and 2021, all TV series broadcasted in the prime-time slot of the 7 most watched national channels, and all original productions selected by digital platforms are screened. Content analysis is applied to a total of 600 films and 313 TV series that met with the audience between these dates, and the ratio of labor force and occupational distribution in the teams are calculated according to gender.

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