COLD (2013) MASCULINITY AT REPRESENTATION FILM

Abstract

Masculinity has long been described in the social sciences, based on biology-based gender definitions. According to biology-based definition of gender, masculinity is a genetically inherited property. Thus, masculinity is seen as a field of research that is examined by biology, anatomy, and psychology. However, thanks to the point of view that feminist theories have brought to the field of social sciences, it has begun to be accepted that manhood is a phenomenon shaped and constructed in the social context. In this context, it is generally accepted that today, manhood, like femininity, is a phenomenon that is shaped by societal politics and that it is a re-emergence at any moment. When it is accepted that the man was built socially, it turns out that the boundaries of this phenomenon are also variable and uncertain. Thus, the form of power that is called male domination corresponds to different male experiences that are irrelevant, plural, and often conflicting with each other. The change in masculinity values and styles that masculinity experiences have is called "masculinity crisis". This approach has made it widespread that manhood is not a unified whole, but rather a contradictory and fragmented social construction. Soğuk, directed by Uğur Yücel, was analysed by the method of critical discourse analysis and came to be presented through the representations of masculinity, which reveal the contradictory and fragmented structure of the man in the film.