Mustang: Translating Willful Youth

ISBN-13: 9780367543136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 136 str.

Elif Akcali

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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