Evaluating Turkish Comedy Cinema From the Perspective of a Female Audience
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https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2025.759Keywords:
Turkish cinema, comedy films, female audience, humor perception, Kruskal-Wallis TestAbstract
This study, which examines the role of demographic factors in the reception of Turkish comedy films by female audiences, aims to examine female audiences' perceptions of Turkish comedy cinema in a multidimensional manner, encompassing participant profiles and viewing habits, character traits and representations in films, cultural and national comparisons, humor styles, viewing conditions and social context, film style and technical elements, and semantic and emotional evaluations. It also explores how these evaluations differ based on demographic variables. The absence of a study of this scope and sample size at the national or international level in the literature review strengthens the research's potential to make an original contribution to both the academic field and the Turkish film industry. Within the scope of the research, data were collected from 750 volunteer participants through online and face-to-face methods in 2024 and 699 valid surveys were analyzed by eliminating incomplete or incorrectly completed forms. The reliability of the scale was tested using Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and was found to be highly reliable. The data obtained were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test in SPSS Statistics 28. The findings show that female audiences' preferences, perceptions and evaluations of comedy films differ significantly according to demographic variables such as age, education and income level.
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