As one of the important phenomena concerning society, crime has become quite an instrumental theme especially for the post-1990 popular movies. Today, the theme of a great number of movies is crime and phenomena, events or persons that are related to crime like violence, punishment, criminal, victim, etc. It is not so different for Turkish cinema as well. Many producers who desired to achieve the box office of Eşkıya (Yavuz Turgul, 1996) considered crime as a great material to sell. Movies that came to theatres after 2000 and managed to hit the list of most successful box office titles blend crime with different genres like comedy as in Çakallarla Dans, Kolpacino, Maskeli Beşler, Organize İşler, Ali Baba ve 7 Cüceler, Sen Kimsin?, Yahşi Batı and Muro; like drama as in New York’ta Beş Minare or Av Mevsimi and with politics as in Kurtlar Vadisi. This can be considered as a great sign that the audience and producers are highly fond of the concept of crime. The movie Kabadayı from the same list has a story that was built up based on the perspectives of crime and criminals similarly to Eşkıya. But the most important thing we have to see in Kabadayı is that various realities of life like religion, family, government and society are being reproduced over crime and criminals. In parallel with this idea, the purpose of this study is to determine which ideologies are falling under this story and discourse framework, and how do they become effective. For that purpose, the movie Kabadayı has been chosen as a sample and analyzed in terms of ideological method. As a result, beyond crime and punishment, various ideologies on religion, family, government and society is being reproduced through the story and discourse elements in the movie.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | November 30, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | July 23, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Volume: 5 Issue: 2 |
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