İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi İletişim Çalışmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Hasan Gürkan, Habibe Güngör

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Gender,Masculinity,Pilotage,Cinema,Top Gun,Flight

Özet: The aim of this study is to examine how gender is formed in persons before man/woman builds identity based on their biological sex. Then, this study aims to examine how idealized masculinity is re-builded on the areas such as government, church, mass media and occupational groups. In this sense, pilotage is become mannish; professional role of pilotage and gender role intersect, in fact any role conflicts are not experienced. In this study, it is possible to state that pilot men are led to masculinity crisis, and to see this crisis over two Hollywood films. In this study, moreover it is discussed that pilotage is a profession which raises hegemonic masculinity over the visual materials of a periodical regarding this profession.  

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