İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi İletişim Çalışmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Aygül ATAY

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Gender,Performative,The Favourite,The Killing Of A Sacred Deer,The Lobster

Özet: This study discusses Yorgos Lanthimos’s films, The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) and The Favorite (2018), in the context of feminist film analysis. The sampling of the study consists of films directed by Lanthimos in English. The aim of the study is to analyze the gender structure in Lanthimos’s three films. The films, included in this study, reveal the performative structure of gender while criticizing the normative order. Lanthimos, as one of the auteur directors of the Greek New Wave Cinema, reverses the sanctity and gender roles of the family concept in all three films, and reveals the performative structure of gender in the context of Butler. While the director criticizes the normative order over the manifestation of the modern world, he creates a system based on performance in terms of gender.

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