ANIMATED FILM AS AN ELOQUENT BODY: SETH BOYDEN’S AN OBJECT AT REST AS MATTERTEXT

Year 2018, Volume: 16 Issue: 1/2, 27 - 46, 16.05.2018

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Abstract

Bu makalenin birincil
amacı yeni oluşmakta olan ve çevre ve edebiyat çalışmalarına taze bir bakış
açısı getiren maddeci ekoeleştiriyi tanıtmaktır. Edebiyat ve kültürel
çalışmaların kapsamını çizgi filmleri de kapsayacak şekilde genişleten bu
makale, öncelikle maddeci ekoeleştiriyi, ekoeleştirinin gelişim basamaklarıyla
ilintili olarak ve teorik altyapıyı oluşturacak şekilde ele almaktadır. Daha
sonra, Serenella Iovino ve Serpil Oppermann’ın kuramları ışığında, Seth
Boyden’in An Object at Rest (2015) adlı kısa çizgi filmini örnek olarak
incelemektedir. Bu film Jeffrey J. Cohen’in hikaye anlatıcı madde olarak öne
sürdüğü taş figürüne dair yazdıklarıyla birebir örtüşmektedir. Taşın öykü
anlatıcı özelliklerini ön plana alan bu makale, özellikle ekolojik yönelimleri
bulunan çizgi filmlerin, insan ötesi bağlamda insan-doğa ilişkilerini tartışmak
için “faydalı stratejiler” olarak nasıl kullanılabileceklerine ışık tutmaktadı

Keywords

Animated film, material ecocriticism, posthumanism, An Object at Rest, Seth Boyden

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