Hegemonic masculinity in the films of male Auteur directors on the last period in Turkish cinema

Cinema, as a mass medium and an art form, reflects the meaning and the value judgements of the society, provides to reproduce these characteristics of the society. Hegemonic masculinity, as a power mechanism and the repetition of the patriarchal power, is reproduced by means of cinema and maintained. In this study, the films of the male auteur directors such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Zeki Demirkubuz, and Reha Erdem whose films are important in the last period of Turkish Cinema with intellectual, fictional and practicable importance, are examined in the context of hegemonic masculinity. In the study, while "Gender and Hegemonic Masculinity" and "Auteur Theory" are handled historically and conceptually in detail in the framework of the main headings of "Auteur Theory", The auteur directors were included in the reviews of the works "Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), "Yeraltı" (Underground), "Koca Dünya" (Big World). In these examinations, the findings of continuity of the hegomonic man were encountured.