Growing Up Married (2016)
Representing forced marriage on screen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12877310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eylem Atakav (0000-0001-5718-5614, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-241 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17405904.2019.1665078 |
| OpenAlex | W2910565438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
According to the UNICEF report entitled ‘Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects’ (2014), there are 700 million women who were married as children, and 280 million girls are at risk of becoming child brides. In Turkey, according to the reports written by feminist organisations 1 in 3 marriages there is a child. These figures are alarming and signal the need for further and urgent research in the field. In 2016 I made my first ever film entitled Growing Up Married. The film explores what happens after child marriage by focusing on the stories of four women from Turkey and making their experiences visible and audible, in an attempt to contribute to and advance debates around this significant, complex and emotionally charged human rights issue which has often been discursively silenced. Working on a documentary film on forced marriage in Turkey poses challenges to me as a UK-trained and based academic, who focuses on theories around feminism and media rather than filmmaking practice. In this article, I critically reflect upon the process of making a documentary film, and theories around interviewing women to examine the tensions inherent within representing forced marriage on screen
Art · Child Rights · Feminism · Filmmaking · Forced marriage · Human rights · Interview · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Sex work and related issues
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |