Dr Eylem Atakav

Job Title	Contact	Location
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies	E dot Atakav at uea dot ac dot uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2972	Registry And Council House 3.31

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Biography

Eylem studied for her degree in Film and Television Studies at Ankara University in Turkey. She then went on to do a Masters degree in Media Studies at Southampton Solent University where she also completed her doctoral thesis ‘The Representation of Women in Turkish Cinema in the 1980s’. She has taught both at Solent (2005-09) and the University of Winchester as lecturer in Media, Film and Television Studies (2007-2009). She is the co-editor of online film studies journal Cinemascope and is a member of the advisory board of Sine/Cine.

Key Research Interests

I have an interest in media and cultural politics, gender in film and television, feminist film theory, transnational cinema, women’s cinema and Turkish cinema. I am also interested in the relationship between films and cultural memory. Currently working on a monograph on gender and Turkish cinema as well as an edited collection on women and world cinema.

Forthcoming publications:

Books:

1980’ler Sinemasında Kadın (Women in 1980s Cinema), Ileri Kitabevi, 2010.

Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:
‘Syrian Women Filmmakers,’ in Dictionnaire des Femmes Créatrices/Secteur Cinéma Brigitte Rollet and Pascale Risterucci (eds.) (Paris : Editions des Femmes, 2009-10)

(Forthcoming) ‘Evil Women versus Pathetic Men: Feminist Discourse in Zeki Demirkubuz’s films’, Turkish Cinema Anthology: Turkish Cinema: Aesthetics, Culture, History, and the Nation, Chicago University Press, 2010.

Book Reviews and Review Articles

‘Dr Who: The Writer’s Tale’, Transformative Works and Cultures, Fall 2010.

Book Reviews and Review Articles:

M. Evans, The Wooden Doctor, Women’s History Magazine, Issue 54, Autumn, 2006, pp.31-2.

C. Gibson, Symbols of the Goddess: Universal Signs of the Divine Female, Women’s History Magazine, Issue 51, Autumn 2005, pp.37-8.

Translation (English to Turkish)

Annette Kuhn, ‘Filmde ve Medyada Feminizmin Durumu’, Sine/Cine: Journal of Film Studies, inaugural issue, Autumn 2009. The article is originally published as ‘State of Film and Media Feminism’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture, Volume 30, Issue 1, 2004, pp. 1221-8.

Selected conference papers:

‘Sexualisation of Culture: Turkish Cinema in the Posters of Sex Films of the 1970s’, Framing Film - Cinema and the Visual Arts: International Film Conference, University of Winchester, September, 4-6, 2009.

‘Depoliticisation of the Film Text and the Child in Turkish Cinema’, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, July, 3-5, 2009.

‘A Clandestine Resistance? Silence and female subjectivity in Innocence’, Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, July, 4-6, 2008.

‘Double Imprisonment: On the Metaphor of Prison in the Cities of Demirkubuz’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Middle Eastern Caucus, Philadelphia, March, 6-9, 2008.

‘The Mirror has Two Faces: a Clandestine Resistance versus the Fallen Woman’, Images at the Threshold: Postgraduate Film Conference, European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, April, 19, 2007.

‘The (Im)Possibility for a Feminist Discourse in Turkish Cinema, Interdisciplinary Film Research Workshop, University of Cambridge, February, 28, 2007.

‘Investigating Turkish Women’s Cinema, Its Audience and Cultural Identity’, Cinema Audiences Conference, University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne, Newcastle, June,2, 2006.

‘Masculinity in Crisis? Representations of Masculinity in Cinema’, Midlands Arts Centre’s Guest Speaker, Birmingham, May, 10, 2006.

‘Mona Lisa in Veils: Politics, Religion and Feminism in the context of Turkey’. Woman and the Divine Conference. Institute for Feminist Theory and Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University College, June 17-19, 2005.