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This doctoral thesis deals with Fatih Akın’s and Lars von Trier’s cinema as a challenge to the archetypal mother/woman image with the different representations of the “Wild/Wolf Woman”. It aims to analyze how this challenge appears through nature, occult, and hyper-sexuality in Trier’s works, and culture, religion, and politics in Akın’s. Focusing on the similarities and differences in the contexts and approaches of the selected movies, the “Wild/Wolf Woman” as a manifestation of aesthetic rebellion cinema will be discussed. How both directors undo and deconstruct the deeply-rooted, archetypal image of woman in grand narratives and the collective unconscious seen from the “male gaze” will be examined by applying and challenging Jung’s archetypes with references to Foucault, Butler, and Camus.
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Prof. Dr. Chris Wahl, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

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Funda Bilgen Steinberg was born in 1983. She is a literary scholar and university lecturer. She completed her BA in English Language and Literature at Bilkent University, and her MA in English Literature with a focus on gender and cultural studies in Middle East Technical University. Her master’s thesis was entitled “An Ecofeminist Approach to Atwood’s Surfacing, Lessing’s The Cleft and Winterson’s The Stone Gods”. She has been working as a lecturer since 2005, including at Mercyhurst University in the USA as a Fulbright scholar. Currently she works at Ankara University and is a doctoral student candidate at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.