THE GHOSTS OF FEMALE GOTHIC

Coşkun LİKTOR

doi:https://doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.537794

Makale detayları

THE GHOSTS OF FEMALE GOTHIC

Yazarlar:

Coşkun LİKTOR

Yayıncı:

Semire Ruken ÖZTÜRK

Ana Başlıklar:

Güzel Sanatlar

Dergi:

sinecine: Journal of Film Studies 2016 Vol.7 Issue 2, pp.149-169

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000596926

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

2636-784X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.537794

Özet:

 


This article explores the representation of woman as a ghost or at least a ghostly figure in two films, What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) and La Cara Oculta (The Hidden Face, Andres Baiz, 2011), both of which, it is argued, are situated in the female Gothic tradition. Ghosts and haunting, i.e., activity associated with ghosts, are widely used metaphors in female Gothic works of art, a sub-genre of Gothic that addresses the themes of gender oppression and domestic entrapment, both of which are emblematic of women’s experience in a patriarchy. This article argues that What Lies Beneath and The Hidden Face depict the haunting of a woman by another woman who is either dead or, if still alive, dead to the world, in ways that articulate feminist concerns and draw attention to gender oppression. WhileWhat Lies Beneath makes use of a ghost to address female victimization and male violence against women, The Hidden Face deals with the “ghosting,” or erasure, of women within patriarchal, phallocentric power structures that negate her existence. In both films, the figure of the ghostly woman serves to highlight the ways in which women are oppressed, victimized, disempowered – in short, rendered ghostly – in phallocentric, patriarchal culture.

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Makale detayları

THE GHOSTS OF FEMALE GOTHIC

Yazarlar: Coşkun LİKTOR

Yayıncı: Semire Ruken ÖZTÜRK

Ana Başlıklar: Güzel Sanatlar

Dergi: sinecine: Journal of Film Studies 2016 Vol.7 Issue 2, pp.149-169

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000596926

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 2636-784X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.537794

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Coşkun LİKTOR

Yayıncı:

Semire Ruken ÖZTÜRK

Ana Başlıklar:

Güzel Sanatlar

Dergi:

sinecine: Journal of Film Studies 2016 Vol.7 Issue 2, pp.149-169

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000596926

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

2636-784X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.537794