151. Her resistance is many: the accented filmmaking practice of Mizgin Müjde Arslan.
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Fontini, Pinar
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FILMMAKING , *LIMINALITY , *DIASPORA , *FEMINISTS , *FILMMAKERS , *FEMINISM - Abstract
This paper aims to understand the "accented" documentary practice of Mizgin Müjde Arslan, a contemporary Kurdish female filmmaker who was born in Turkey but lives in diaspora. I will discuss her filmmaking through the features of accented cinema, developed by Hamid Naficy and furthered by Asuman Suner. These features are multi-perspectivity, liminality, being the subject and the storyteller simultaneously, deconstructing the borders, replacing the history with a new memory, and cyclicity. As Naficy's model lacks the gender dimension in its imagery of nation, identity and belonging, I will discuss his model from a broader perspective by adapting Suner's approach, adding the gender dimension into my discussions. For this purpose, I will use the principles of "accented feminism", a term I develop within the paper and draw the concept of "accented feminist cinema" from. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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