Pioneering "Experimental Heroes" of Turkish Cinema
While the narrative tradition, which has been developing for thousands of years, can be examined by dividing it into three parts as Drama, Lyricos and Epos, since the discovery of cinematography 127 years ago, narrative in cinema has developed ...
Selma Köksal
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The Great-Teacher Myth: Turkish Cinema vs. World Cinema
The aim of this study is to trace “the great-teacher myth” in the examples of the Turkish and the world cinema and unpack the symbolic messages about the teaching profession by the way of analyzing the films in which the great or bad teacher characters ...
Hüseyin Barut, Mustafa Sever
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From Clichés to Mysticism: Evolution of Religious Motives in Turkish Cinema
As an art form, an academic discipline and an ideological instrument that finds a place in cultural studies and social sciences, film plays a significant role both in the creation and as a reflection of the culture in which it is produced and sustained ...
Hülya Önal
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Cinema of Thought: A Dialectic of Body and Brain in Turkish Art Cinema
Can films contribute to the production of thought? Or, to put the question more radically, can films generate thought on their own, or can there be films that think the unthought? When thought is equated with rationality, logic, concepts, generalizations,
Serdar Öztürk, Waseem Ahad
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The Spectacle of Politics and Religion in the Contemporary Turkish Cinema
This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema. It investigates their common origin-the spectacle, which each field views as an instrument of governmentality. The book analyses six recent, some of which are internationally known Turkish films: The Messenger (Ulak), A Man’s Fear of ...
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Cinema as a Form of Culturel Representation: A Comparative Analysis of the Films Lal Gece (2016) and Hwal (Yay,2005) from Gender Perspectives /Kültürel Gösterge Aracı Olarak Sinema: Lal Gece (2016) ve Hwal (Yay,2005) Filmlerinin Toplumsal Cinsiyet Bağlamda Karşılaştırmalı Analizi [PDF]
The aim of this study is to establish the relation between gender and culture through cinema, which is a cultural indicator tool. Based on the assumption that there is a parallelism between cultural identity and gender, the study has tried to ...
İzlem Kanlı*, Pelin Agocuk**
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This essay describes the history of Turkish cinema from its origins in 1896 until the present, focusing upon how Islam and religious Muslims are portrayed in the movies. For historical, political, and cultural reasons, Islam and religious Muslims have often been portrayed in a negative light, even though Turkey is a predominantly Muslim country ...
Yorulmaz, Bilal, Blizek, William L.
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Güneş Ne Zaman Doğacak?: A different approach from the perspective of Turkish cinematic art
Discussing the debate and ideological background regarding national cinema, this form of art shall be compared to several other contemporary cinematic currents in Turkey.
Mehmet Yılmazata, Erdem Güven
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The Second World War was not only “the war of bombs and bullets” but also of images and words. Even though Turkey did not enter the war until February 1945, Allied and Axis forces tried to influence the Turkish government and society with propaganda and
Hatice Selen Akçalı Uzunhasan
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Changes in Women’s Representations in Turkish Cinema from the 1980s to the Early 1990s
This article focuses on the representations of women alongside the social and historical background of Turkish cinema from the 1980s through the early 1990s.
Fatma Özen
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