Abstract
Observations of Breaking with Traditional and Individualization of the Turkish Women Who Were Born and Grew up in Germany The Example of Ceyda, a Character in Fatih Akın’s “Short Sharp Shock” Movie
Although immigration is a subject as old as human history, it is still continue to be relevant today. As is, the immigration and immigrant relationship constitutes a field of study that spans all areas of social sciences. And cinema is one of these areas.
Cinema, when it’s considered as a mass communication tool that explains the society to the society itself, is given a new mission from the moment it is off the director’s hand and reaches the audience: mirroring the truth. Although the issue of whether cinema has such a mission is controversial, Turkish-German movies made in the field of migration show that when cinema is about a relatively less visible group in the society, it can establish a ground for preliminary acceptance by filling the fields were left behind by reality and experience.
Until 1990s, movies, which are related the Turkish-German immigrants, used to show the female characters as people in need of protection, silent, suffering oppression and being exposed to violence, isolated from society. The drama of the Turkish immigrant girl has been one of the main topics of the Turkish-German cinema for long years.
As a Turkish-German filmmaker with an immigration background, Fatih Akın made movies in which he reflected the Turkish woman out of the usual patterns. One of them is Ceyda in his movie called “Short Sharp Shock”. The second generation Turkish immigrants narrative of Fatih Akın over Ceyda is the subject of this study.
Keywords
Migration, Identity, Multiculturalism, Women, Fatih Akın