A Study on the Use of Cinematography in the Portrayal of Femininity and Sexuality in Prasanna Jayakodi's Movie' 28'

Abstract

Cinema is the youngest of the arts. But all kinds of arts born from the beginning of man are embedded in it. How does the use of language contribute to the excellence of the arts, such as novels and short stories? In the same way, for the excellence of a work of thought, its use of cinematography plays an important role. Cinema is a powerful art that uses images as a medium of language. The basic meaning of the subject of the film is based on the use of images or the way images are constructed in a film. The purpose of this research is to conduct a study on the use of cinematography used to portray femininity and sexuality in Prasanna Jayakodi's movie '28'. The research problem was to find out the appropriateness of the imagery used by the cinematographer to vividly depict women's feelings. The character of Suddi, who plays the main role here, unfolds on the screen as a young woman, a wife and a working woman. In this way, the pictorial phenomena used by the filmmaker to reveal the issues related to femininity and sexuality as well as the inabilities of women trapped in the cultural framework, are excellent. For this study, a qualitative research method was used to collect data in which Prasanna Jayakodi's movie '28' was used as the main source and critical works related to the previous subject, internet, and magazine papers were used as secondary sources. The conclusion that can be reached at the end of the research is that the cinematographer has been able to portray well the situations where women are oppressed due to sex and the role of women in a weak position in the society through the use of successful images.