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The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Revolt Against Patriarchal System

The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Revolt Against Patriarchal System

Elçin Akçora As, Alev Fatoş Parsa
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781799817741|ISBN10: 1799817741|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799817758|EISBN13: 9781799817765
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1774-1.ch001
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Akçora As, Elçin, and Alev Fatoş Parsa. "The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Revolt Against Patriarchal System." International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry, edited by Gülşah Sarı and Derya Çetin, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1774-1.ch001

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Akçora As, E. & Parsa, A. F. (2020). The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Revolt Against Patriarchal System. In G. Sarı & D. Çetin (Eds.), International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry (pp. 1-24). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1774-1.ch001

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Akçora As, Elçin, and Alev Fatoş Parsa. "The Representation of Women in Feminist Cinema: Fried Green Tomatoes as a Revolt Against Patriarchal System." In International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry, edited by Gülşah Sarı and Derya Çetin, 1-24. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1774-1.ch001

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Abstract

In the art of cinema, which fulfills the function of a “dream factory” with its male-dominated narrative structure, men are represented in active roles with their actions, while women in passive roles that do not or cannot interfere with the flow of events with their inactions. This perception, which dominates the cinema, showed a change with the reflection of intellectual context of the Second Wave Feminism to the films. In this sense, in the study, Fried Green Tomatoes, regarded as a feminist film example by movie critics and directed by Jon Avnet in 1991, was chosen as a sample. In the study, structuralist narrative codes that construct meaning in the film are analyzed in the context of feminist thought and film theory paradigms. In the film, the “strong female character representations,” which are placed in the center of narrative and positioned to advance the story, are subjected in the foreground; these characters also stand against the known stereotyped roles imposed on women by traditional narrative cinema.

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