Is Resistance Futile?: The Clash of the Individual and Society in Educating Rita, Billy Elliot and Trainspotting

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2012-02-01

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Ağın, Başak

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Direniş, bireyin, katmanlaşmış ve belirli bir toplum içerisindeki iktidar sahiplerince üzerinde hüküm kurulan sosyal sistemle mücadele etme biçimidir. Sınıfsal ayrımları gözeten ve sınıf farklılıklarını önem- seyen İngiliz toplumunda, direniş, çağdaş sinema da dâhil olmak üzere, pek çok edebi ve kültürel metin tü- rüne konu edilmiştir. Lewis Gilbert’ın yönettiği ve Willy Russell’ın oyunundan uyarlanan Educating Rita (1983), Stephen Daldry’nin yönettiği Billy Elliot (2000) ve Danny Boyle’un yönettiği, Irvine Welsh’in ro- manından uyarlanan Trainspotting (1996) filmlerinde direniş ana tema olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır ve yö- netici ve bağlı sınıflar arasındaki çatışmanın merkezinde yer almaktadır. Bu makalenin amacı, hiyerarşik hatların keskin biçimde çizilmiş olduğu ve sınıf ayrımcılığına önem veren bir toplumda direniş ihtimalinin bulunup bulunmadığını tartışmak ve bunu, ismi geçen bu üç filmde örneklendirmektir. Bir başka deyişle, sınıf hareketliliğinin olabilirliği bakımından birey ve toplum arasındaki çatışma, çağdaş İngiliz sineması- nın bu üç örneğinde incelenmektedir

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Resistance, Class mobility, Educating Rita (1983), Billy Elliot (2000), Trainspotting (1996)

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https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cankujhss/issue/4023/53122
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83679

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Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Department of Basic English, Article

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B. Ağın, “Is Resistance Futile?: The Clash of the Individual and Society in Educating Rita, Billy Elliot and Trainspotting,” Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 101–107, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/cankujhss/issue/4023/53122.