Sinemada Cinsiyetçi Ötekileştirmeye Ableism Penceresinden Bakmak: Zeki Demirkubuz Sinemasında Ableist Temsil
Lookıng Upon Sexist Marginalizatıon In Cınema Through Ableism: Ableist Representation In Zeki Demirkubuz Cinema

Summary/Abstract: As a form of marginalization that adopts bodily completeness, ableism defines individuals at two extremes as “complete” and “incomplete”. The concept of ableism, which first appears in the disability studies terminology in the historical path, has a much more encompassing meaning in the context of marginalizing practices. In psychoanalytic theory, which sees the phallus identified with men as the expression of completeness, it is thought that it is possible to relate the understanding that characterizes women as “incomplete” and the ableism. From this point of view, it is possible to evaluate ableism as a reflection of a phallus-based search for completeness. The phallic-centric, or phallonsentric attitudes of the male dominant view reveal the ability as a form of marginalization that characterizes women as “incomplete” in many different fields and thus reproduces gendered stereotypes. In the study, it is stated that the social acceptance of women in the cinema makes the dualistic way of thinking inherent to traditional Western philosophy and the abilityism visible in relation to the unconscious processes that continue the phallus-based search for completeness. The metaphor of “completeness-imperfection” mentioned in the study was examined in the light of the phenomena of phallus theory in psychoanalysis and traditional Western philosophy. Zeki Demirkubuz’s films Innocence, Kader and Ember were chosen as samples in this study, based on the idea that the view towards women reflected in the cinema has a male-dominated feature. Within the scope of the study, focusing on Demirkubuz films, it is aimed to make sense of the dualist structure, which builds the social identity of women on the perception of “lack” and the men’s one on the perception of “completeness” and is processed with a ableist attitude, together with a phallocentric understanding.

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