Gender on Display

Tuna Tetik (Ph.D.) is an associate professor in the Film and Television Department and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Bahcesehir University. He received his doctoral degree at Bahcesehir University, Cinema and Media Research Ph.D. program, and directed short films and a documentary that received international awards. His research interests are superheroes and comics, transmedia, film genres, video-on-demand services, and video games. He has edited several international books. Tetik is currently teaching several undergraduate courses on digital editing and film production, and graduate courses on screenwriting.


Ece Arihan (Ph.D.) is the Department Chair and assistant professor in the Visual Communication Design Department at Bahcesehir University. She earned her bachelor's degree at Isik University in Computer Engineering, a master's degree at the Academy of Art University in Animation and Visual Effects, and a doctoral degree at Bahcesehir University in Cinema and Media Research. She wrote and directed her own 3D animated short film, Never After, which won international awards. Moreover, Ece Arihan worked on 3D animated short films that were screened at international animated film festivals. Her interests include graphic design, filmmaking, animation studies, game development, and gender studies.