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The Case for Kurdish Cinema

Story, Elizabeth A.
http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0345-1231
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1712157659835465

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
Kurdish cinema represents a vital transnational and global art form that bridges the Kurdish community, uniting a stateless people through cultural expression. This dissertation explores common narrative threads of Kurdish cinema relating to identity, statelessness, trauma, and women’s issues, despite the differences between Kurds of various nationalities in both the ancestral Kurdistan region and the diaspora. The first chapter examines how these artworks confront issues of identity, exile, and homeland. The second interrogates depictions of individual and collective trauma in Kurdish cinema, especially generational trauma resulting from racism, conflict, and displacement. Chapter 3 analyzes Kurdish cinema from a comparative perspective through the lens of Indigenous studies, examining how Kurdish cinema confronts settler-colonial oppression. The fourth and final chapter addresses the portrayal of Kurdish women’s issues in Kurdish cinema, contrasting how male and female directors represent these issues and emphasizing the vital contributions of Kurdish women filmmakers especially with regard to telling Kurdish women’s stories. Ultimately this work positions Kurdish cinema as a powerful artistic movement spanning national and international boundaries driven by the efforts of a distinct filmmaking community united in the desire to represent Kurdish identity and culture through cinematic storytelling.
Charles Buchanan (Advisor)
Andrea Frohne (Committee Member)
Ghirmai Negash (Committee Member)
Nukhet Sandal (Committee Member)
284 p.
Film Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Womens Studies
Kurdish cinema; transnational cinema; stateless cinema; exilic cinema; trauma in cinema; generational trauma; Indigenous studies cinema; Kurdish women's cinema; Kurdish film; Kurdish filmmaking; women filmmakers; diaspora cinema; Kurdish filmmakers; Kurdish women filmmakers

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  • Story, E. A. (2024). The Case for Kurdish Cinema [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1712157659835465

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Story, Elizabeth. The Case for Kurdish Cinema. 2024. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1712157659835465.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Story, Elizabeth. "The Case for Kurdish Cinema." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1712157659835465

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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