Year 2011 – Volume 3 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Mine EGBATAN Bilkent University Dates: 1 January 2011 Examining drags, where femininity and/or masculinity are performed by opposite sexes, gains importance for providing a new insight into gender issue. The films focusing on the life in drags are considered to be significant tools to understand issues related to gender. Paris is Burning, a film directed by Jennie Livingston, is an invaluable source for attracting attention towards drags, transsexuals, gender and relatively race in this regard. The film focuses on the drag balls where black [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nejat ULUSAY Dates: 1 January 2011 This work aims to focus on ‘New Queer Cinema’, a movement which emerged as part of the independent filmmaking in the USA of the 1990s, as well as represented by the films of few British directors. This work, which offers a brief history on the representation of homosexuality in Western cinema, also dwells on queer theory and queer film studies. After dealing with the directors of the ‘New Queer Cinema’ and their films, the work focuses on the aftermath [...]