EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN CINEMATIC NARRATIVETHE ANALYSES OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE INDICATORS OVER THE EVENTS AND CHARACTER PATTERNS IN THE AVATAR (2009) FILM

Alev PARSA ¹ , gaye edizler ¹

The film Avatar, directed by James Cameron, addresses both the conscious and unconscious dimensions with its strong and effective visual presentation and includes postulates about the emotional intelligence indicators. The event pattern of the Avatar movie and the main characters’ (a) awareness of emotions (b) emotion control (c) empathy (d) relationship management are analyzed at the base of theatrical expression in the study. Besides that, rather than the economic side of the film, its contributions to the development of emotional literacy in viewers are analyzed in the study. In accordance with the study’s hypothesis, what are the emotional intelligence dimensions that are reflected by the characters in the Avatar? How the narration phases take places as compositional dimension in the theatrical structure? How do binary oppositions in serial dimension produce meanings and values in the indicator system? In accordance with these questions, in a way to contribute to the analysis of

Keywords
Emotional Intelligence, , Cinematic Narrative, Emotional Literacy, Semiotics , Avatar Movie,