Avatar: A Film at the Center of the Feminine Other

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dc.authorid0000-0001-9486-3349
dc.authorid0000-0001-7029-1761
dc.contributor.authorDereboyu, Pelin Guregen
dc.contributor.authorGuzel, Ebru
dc.contributor.authorOlaru, Gabriela Oana
dc.contributor.authorAyberk, Erhan
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-31T15:09:10Z
dc.date.available2026-01-31T15:09:10Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis study analyzes James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar from the perspective of the feminine other through deconstruction. In the movie, nature and the Na'vi people are depicted as feminine, while modern man and the science, technology, and military power he represents are portrayed as masculine. Although it critiques the colonialist structure of modernity, the film's narrative structure and character portrayals indicate that it reproduces the superiority of Western-centered ideology and the masculine mind. The study analyzes how the film's narrative and character representations implicitly support masculine centrism. The analysis reveals how nature and marginalized cultures are romanticized and presented in the film and how the notion that the feminine can only survive by adopting masculine traits is processed in the subtext. Grounded in a conceptual and theoretical framework, this research focuses on the sustainability of the patriarchal capitalist system and gender politics while critically examining how cinema reconstructs ideological structures through the narratives in the film.
dc.identifier.doi10.5195/cinej.2025.731
dc.identifier.endpage486
dc.identifier.issn2159-2411
dc.identifier.issn2158-8724
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105007353212
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage447
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org./10.5195/cinej.2025.731
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/10842
dc.identifier.volume13
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001504651000015
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniv Pittsburgh, Univ Library System
dc.relation.ispartofCinej Cinema Journal
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260128
dc.subjectAvatar
dc.subjectFeminine other
dc.subjectMasculine centrism
dc.subjectGender politics
dc.subjectCinema
dc.titleAvatar: A Film at the Center of the Feminine Other
dc.typeArticle

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