Television Series Repertoire in Turkey (1968-2019): A Perspective from Translation Studies
Abstract
Concentrating on the history of Turkish television from translation studies perspective, the present research broadly aims at problematizing the varying position and role of translation within the “repertoire” (Even-Zohar, 1990) of Turkish television series between 1968 and 2019. Drawing on, on the one hand, the secondary sources provided by researchers on the history of Turkish television (Tamer, 1983; Mutlu 1991/2008; Serim, 2007; Cankaya, 1986; Yücel 2012/2014), and on the other, the primary sources involving the corpus of television remakes presented between 2000-2019 and semi-structured interviews with several television professionals, this research analyses three disparate yet interrelating periods of Turkish television. These periods constitute the era of public broadcaster TRT (1968-1990), the commercial broadcasting in the early 1990s, and lastly, the 2000s. Our main argument is that even though the amount of television series “imported” (Even-Zohar, 1990) from other cultures and their ways of broadcast have remarkably changed from one period to another, translated television series have occupied an indispensable position, having broad cultural significance, and have provided viewers with new “options” (Even-Zohar, 1990) throughout Turkish television history until today. More particularly, it suggests that the ways of transfer have been enriched through time, moving from dubbing to subtitling and to the current practice of remaking of foreign originals, a significant part of the repertoire of television series in Turkey.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Mehmet Erguvan
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0000-0003-3649-8392
Türkiye
Publication Date
July 24, 2020
Submission Date
November 25, 2019
Acceptance Date
July 1, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Number: 28
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