Form of justice enacted in the absence or defiance of the norms of formal law and jurisprudence. Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself.
Published in Chapter:
Man, Masculinity, and Violence in Turkish Cinema After 2000: The Case of Kenan Imirzalioglu
Gökhan Gültekin (Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0128-3.ch009
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to trace the relationship between male, masculinity, and violence in Turkish films after 2000. For this purpose, action, adventure, political, and drama films featuring Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, the pioneering anti-hero of male violence in popular Turkish films between 2000-2010 were focused. Thus, the sample of the study was composed of Deli Yürek: Bumerang Cehennemi (2001), Yazı Tura (2004), Kabadayı (2007), and Ejder Kapanı (2010) films. In all of these films Yusuf, Cevher, Devran, and Celal acted by İmirzalıoğlu use intense violence in the name of honor, power, and virility. Starting from such observation, the study has endeavored to make an interpretation on appearance of the relationship among man, masculinity, and violence based on the type, orientation, perspective and purpose of violence in the films, included the sample since the 2000s. In pursuit of such meaning first, it will be useful to mention the relationship among violence, man, and masculinity.