Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub1
Representations of Masculinities in Gaya Jiji's Film Named My Favorite Fabric

Representations of Masculinities in Gaya Jiji's Film Named My Favorite Fabric

Baran Barış
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799871804|ISBN10: 1799871800|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799871811|EISBN13: 9781799871828
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch021
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Barış, Baran. "Representations of Masculinities in Gaya Jiji's Film Named My Favorite Fabric." Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond, edited by Işıl Tombul and Gülşah Sarı, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 338-354. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch021

APA

Barış, B. (2021). Representations of Masculinities in Gaya Jiji's Film Named My Favorite Fabric. In I. Tombul & G. Sarı (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond (pp. 338-354). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch021

Chicago

Barış, Baran. "Representations of Masculinities in Gaya Jiji's Film Named My Favorite Fabric." In Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond, edited by Işıl Tombul and Gülşah Sarı, 338-354. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch021

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

Masculinity refers to the roles expected of men by gender ideology. Masculinity studies after 1990 revealed that masculinity cannot be taken as a universal subject. Another important concept in this study is orientalism. Orientalism generally refers to the West's point of view regarding the East. In Western narratives, Eastern women are generally depicted as oppressed heroes, and men as heroes who are always strong. However, alternative narratives reveal that different forms of femininity and masculinity can be seen in Eastern societies. In this study, a Syrian director's film named My Favorite Fabric is analyzed with a semiotic method within the framework of these concepts. When the representations of masculinity in the film are examined, it is seen that different forms of masculinity are constructed, and an alternative to the orientalist discourse is presented accordingly. It has been revealed that different variables are effective in the construction of masculinities.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.