Metin Erksan'ın film uyarlaması Kadın Hamlet'te yorumlayıcıların eleştirel bir analizi

The aim of this MA thesis is to critically examine Metin Erksan's film adaptation Kadın Hamlet (The Female Hamlet) (1976) using the methodology offered by Lawrence Venuti to guide research on film adaptations. Within this aim, the study concentrates on the formal and thematic interpretants in the famous film adaptation. Formal interpretants in the work have been investigated in terms of the setting, Erksan's filming style, and motifs like revenge and paternal love. The results reveal that the mentioned motifs and the setting have a structural equivalence relationship with the source material, namely William Shakespeare's Hamlet. When it comes to Erksan's filming style, his work is certainly in line with his previous literary adaptations because they often have tragic endings involving the death of the main characters. Thematic interpretants in the work have been examined with a specific focus on the gender identities of the characters. According to the results, it could be claimed that Erksan mainly portrays a non-binary Hamlet, which is his major diversion from the source material. However, there are also some instances such as the title of the adaptation and the heterosexual relationship of Hamlet, which interrupt the non-binary portrayal. The results of the analysis have clearly shown that Erksan's application of thematic interpretants outranks his application of formal interpretants in the adaptation, which reveals Erksan's gender ideology. Key Words: Formal Interpretants, Thematic Interpretants, Metin Erksan, Kadın Hamlet (The Female Hamlet), Gender, Non-binary