The Exorcist in Istanbul: Processes of Transcultural Appropriation Within Turkish Popular Cinema
In 1974, producer Hulki Saner hired acclaimed director Metin Erksan to direct an unofficial remake of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). The resultant film, ?eytan, took the plot, characters and set-pieces from the prior film and translated them ...
Iain Robert Smith
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Drakula comes to İstanbul: a brief history of Turkish fantastic cinema [PDF]
This article aims to recount a brief history of Turkish fantastic cinema. Although fantastic themes have been a part of world cinemas almost since the beginning of cinema itself, the first examples of Turkish fantastic cinema appear much later in the ...
Fundalar, Serkan +2 more
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Cinema as the “Weapon of the Enemy”: The Archaeology of an Islamist Film Criticism Discourse [PDF]
The issue of how cinema should be, the influence of which on the society was indisputable for the intellectuals, became an important subject during especially 1960s in Turkey. During these years, the discourse of Islamism once again made an appearance in
Mesut Bostan, Süheyla Nil Mustafa
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Yeşilçam Dönemindeki Hazretli Filmlerde Yer Alan Hataların Değerlendirilmesi
Birçok türde ve konuda eser vermiş olan Yeşilçam Sineması dinî şahsiyetlerin hayatını da filmleştirmiştir. Geniş seyirci kitlesine ulaşılması sonucu bu filmleri benzeri birçok film takip etmiş ve Hazretli Filmler furyası ortaya çıkmıştır.
Ayşegül Can, Bilal Yorulmaz
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Melodramas are dramatic works of art where the detailed character studies dominate the plot. The dialogues used in melodramas are generally emotional, and the characters are often portrayed in stereotypical forms.
Kemal Çelik
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Slowness and Diverging Aesthetics: Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Zeki Demirkubuz in New Turkish Cinema
New Turkish Cinema embraces minimalist audio-visual elements, with long takes, contemplative narratives, and a mediated film experience that invites slow engagement and introspection. Through a focused comparison of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Zeki Demirkubuz,
Zühre Canay Güven
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Patched Narratives: Yeşilçam Melodramas within the Social Realist Structure of the 1960s
Turkish cinema presents a structure in which various narrative patterns emerge distinctively across different periods. These narratives reflect the social and cultural conditions of their time while also allowing for ideological readings.
Nigar Zulfugarova
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Banned Films, C/overt Oppression: Practices of Film Censorship from Contemporary Turkey [PDF]
This project explores how film censorship shapes film production and circulation at film festivals, public screenings, and theatrical releases since the early 2000s in Turkey.
Ban, Sonay
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THE SUBJECTS OF FATİH AKIN\u27S MELODRAMAS: A GENEALOGICAL READING THROUGH THE FILMS OF R.W. FASSBINDER, YILMAZ GÜNEY AND ATIF YILMAZ [PDF]
Fatih Akın\u27s feature films Head-On (2004) and The Edge of Heaven (2007) resonated strongly with Turkish, German and Turkish German communities, albeit for diverse reasons, opening spaces for debate with regard to subjectivites that foreground their ...
Benli, Emir O
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Building Beyoğlu:Histories of place in a central district in Istanbul [PDF]
This dissertation analyses the development of one of Istanbul’s historical districts, Beyoğlu, between 1950 and 1990. It explores the historicity of place-making in Beyoğlu through the lense of six case studies.
Maessen, J.M.A.H.
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