Mustang: Translating Willful Youth

This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village.

Elif Akçalı is an Associate Professor in Film and TV Studies at Kadir Has University, Turkey. Her research focuses on film aesthetics, videographic criticism, non-fiction film, and gender/sexuality studies.

Cüneyt Çakırlar is Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in film and contemporary arts.

Özlem Güçlü is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in cinema, cinema in Turkey, and cinematic animals.