TY  - JOUR
T1  - Representations of religion in the entertainment media: A comparison of the TV series Shtisel in Israel and Ömer in Türkiye
TT  - Eğlence medyasında din temsilleri: İsrail’deki Shtisel ve Türkiye’deki Ömer televizyon dizilerinin karşılaştırması
AU  - Kılıç, Ayşenur
PY  - 2025
DA  - January
Y2  - 2024
DO  - 10.26650/CONNECTIST2024-1515576
JF  - Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences
PB  - Istanbul University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2636-8943
SP  - 115
EP  - 141
IS  - 67
LA  - en
AB  - This research focuses on two cases from the Global South -the Israeli series Shtisel and its Turkish scripted format adaptation Ömer- to revisit the theoretical debates on the relations between entertainment media, politics, and society by employing Curran’s radical democratic approach. Both series illustrate a recently popular genre: Pious people’s bemusement with modern/secular everyday life. Analyzing TV format adaptations in Türkiye is further significant because the imported format adaptations remain relatively less studied. Four main narratives come into prominence via the narrative analysis: i) the use of technology, ii) the skepticism towards the outside world in Ömer, iii) gender narratives, and iv) politicization/depoliticization of representations of religion. Shtisel represents religion without reflecting current socio-political conflicts, Ömer reflects religion as a site of contestation and polarization of differing identities by reproducing political conflicts from everyday life into fiction. Curran’s framework explains Ömer sufficiently but is limited in helping understand Shtisel unless the Israeli case’s transnational political-economic context is considered. Finally, to comprehend multilayered, dynamic, and sui generis cultural dimensions for each case in the Global South -which is not a homogenous whole- further theoretical inquiry on local, cultural and intertextual characteristics of scripted format adaptations in individual cases is needed.
KW  - Scripted format adaptation
KW  - James Curran
KW  - Türkiye
KW  - Israel
KW  - narrative analysis
N2  - Bu araştırma, Küresel Güney’den iki örneğe -İsrail dizisi Shtisel ile onun Türkiye’deki format adaptasyonu olan Ömer- odaklanarak eğlence medyası, politika ve toplum arasındaki ilişkiler hakkındaki teorik tartışmaları, Curran’ın radikal demokrasi alternatif yaklaşımı ile ele almayı amaçlamaktadır. İncelenen iki dizi de her iki ülkede son zamanlarda popülerleşen bir türü temsil etmesi açısından önemlidir: Dindar insanların modern/seküler günlük yaşamdaki kafa karışıklığını veya dindar-seküler hayat tarzları karşılaştırmasını temsil eden diziler. Türkiye’deki format uyarlamalarını incelemek ayrıyeten önem teşkil etmektedir, çünkü ithal format uyarlamaları Türk dizileri hakkındaki literatürde görece daha az incelenmiştir. Çalışmadaki anlatı analizi sonucunda dört ana anlatı öne çıkmaktadır: i) teknoloji kullanımı, ii) Ömer’de dış dünyaya duyulan şüphe, iii) toplumsal cinsiyet anlatıları ve iv) her iki dizideki din temsillerinde, Ömer’de siyasallaşma ve Shtisel’de siyasallaşmadan arındırma (depolitizasyon) anlatıları. Radikal demokrasi çerçevesi Ömer’i yeterince açıklamakta iken, İsrail örneğindeki ulusaşırı siyasiekonomik bağlam dikkate alınmadıkça Shtisel’i anlamada sınırlı kalmaktadır. Son olarak, homojen bir bütün olmayan Küresel Güney’deki çok katmanlı, dinamik ve kendine has boyutları olabilen her bir vakayı anlayabilmek için her ülke örneğindeki format adaptasyonuna ait yerel, kültürel ve metinlerarası özellikler hakkında daha fazla teorik incelemeye ihtiyaç olduğu görülmektedir.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.26650/CONNECTIST2024-1515576
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/4067917
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