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Mimetik teori ve sinema: Tutku Oyunları filminde arzu ve nefret

Year 2022, Issue: 29, 357 - 369, 21.08.2022
https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1164175

Abstract

Bu çalışmada, yönetmenliğini Todd Field’ın üstlendiği Tutku Oyunları (2006) filminin Girardcı bir analizi yapılacaktır. Tom Perrotta’nın Little Children isimli kitabından uyarlanan film, Amerikan taşrasında yaşayan bir grup insanın arzu ve nefret dinamiklerini konu alır. Tutku Oyunları, arzunun ve nefretin taklitçi doğasını göstermesi bakımından edebiyat kuramcısı René Girard’ın romansal yapıt kavramı bağlamında incelenmeye elverişli bir anlatıdır. Girard, Romantik Yalan ve Romansal Hakikat: Edebi Yapıda Ben ve Öteki adlı eserinde arzuyu ve özneyi yücelten romantik yapıt ile arzunun mimetik yapısını görünür kılan romansal yapıt arasında bir karşıtlık kurar. Girard’ın teorisine göre romansal yapıtlar, teorisyenin üçgen arzu olarak isimlendirdiği model üzerinden arzunun dolayımlılığını görünür kılmaktadır. Tutku Oyunları filmi de merkezine aldığı karakterlerin arzularındaki mimetik yapıyı deşifre etmesi bakımından romansal bir yapıttır. Çalışmanın amacı Girard’ın teorisini sinema çalışmaları açısından bir imkân olarak değerlendirdikten sonra Tutku Oyunları filmindeki arzunun mimetik yapısını metin analizi yöntemi ile incelemektir. Bu çalışma sadece bir film analizi uygulaması olmanın ötesinde filmi günümüz kültürüne dair bir yorum olarak anlayan teorik bir mahiyet de taşır. Girard’ın romanlar üzerinden yaptığı hem kültürü analiz etme hem de kültüre dair teorik bir bakış geliştirme çabasına benzer şekilde bu çalışma da sinemayı hem analiz etmeyi hem de sinema üzerinden günümüzün kültürüne dair bir yorum getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır.

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Mimetic theory and cinema: desire and hate in Little Children

Year 2022, Issue: 29, 357 - 369, 21.08.2022
https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1164175

Abstract

In this study, a Girardian analysis of the Little Children (2006), directed by Todd Field, will be made. Adapted from Tom Perrotta's Little Children, the film is about the dynamics of desire and hatred of a group of people living in the American suburbs. In terms of showing the mimetic nature of desire and hate, Little Children is a suitable narrative to be examined in the context of the literary theorist René Girard's concept of novelistic work. In Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure, Girard distinguishes the romantic work that glorifies the desire and the subject and the novel that makes the mimetic structure of desire visible. According to Girard's theory, novelistic works make the mediation of desire visible through the model that the theorist calls "triangular desire". Little Children is a novelistic work that deciphers the mimetic structure in the desires of the characters it centers on. The aim of the study is to examine the mimetic structure of desire in the film Little Children with textual analysis method, after evaluating Girard's theory as an opportunity for cinema studies. This study is not only an implementation of film analysis, but also carries a theoretical nature that understands film as an interpretation of today's culture. Similar to Girard's efforts to analyze culture and develop a theoretical perspective on culture through novels, this study also aims to analyze film through mimetic theory and to bring an interpretation of today's culture through cinema.

References

  • Bubbio, P. D., & Fleming, C. (2019). Mimetic Theory and Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
  • Cowdell, S. (2015). “Against Romantic Love: Mimeticism and Satire in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and To Rome with Love”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 129-135). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Field, T. (Yönetmen). (2006). Tutku Oyunları. (Little Children). [Film]. ABD.
  • Gibson, M. (Yönetmen). (2004). Tutku: Hz. İsa’nın Çilesi. (The Passion of The Christ). [Film]. ABD.
  • Girard, R. (2001). Romantik Yalan ve Romansal Hakikat: Edebi Yapıda Ben ve Öteki. (Çev. Arzu Etensel İldem). İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık.
  • Girard, R. (2003). Şiddet ve Kutsal. (Çev. Necmiye Alpay). İstanbul: Kanat Kitap.
  • Girard, R. (2005). Günah Keçisi. (Çev. Işık Ergüden). İstanbul: Kanat Kitap.
  • Girard, R. (2015, Kasım 5). La Passion du Christ vue par René Girard. LEFIGARO. https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/2015/11/05/31006-20151105ARTFIG00097--la-passion-du-christ-vue-par-rene-girard.php.
  • Hodge, J. (2015). “Superheroes, scapegoats and saviors: The problem of evil and the need for redemption”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 61-76). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Humbert, D. (2015). “Eyes Wide Shut: Mimesis and Historical Memory in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 117-128). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Lawtoo, N. (2015). “The Matrix e-motion: Simulation, mimesis, hypermimesis”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 89-104). Bloomsbury Academic. Lindelof, D. & Perrotta, T. (Yönetmen). (2014-2017). The Leftovers. [Dizi]. ABD.
  • MacDonald, D. E. (2015). Sanctified victimage on page and screen: The Hunger Games as prophetic media. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.) Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 77-87). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Mckenna, A. (2005). “Fellini’s Crowds and the Remains of Religion”. Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 12-13(1), (ss. 159-182). https://doi.org/10.1353/ctn.0.0005.
  • Osborn, C. (2015). “A Beautiful Crisis? Ang Lee’s Film Adaptation of The Ice Storm”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 137-147). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Paik, P. (2019). “The Self Without Interest: The Return of Sacrifice in The Leftovers”. Science Fiction Studies, 46(2), (ss. 358-379). https://doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2019.0033.
  • Paik, P. Y. (2015). “Apocalypse of the Therapeutic: The Cabin in the Woods and the Death of Mimetic Desire”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 105-116). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Ryba, T. (2015). “Cowboy Metaphysics, the Virtuous-Enough Cowboy, and Mimetic Desire in Stephen Frears’s The Hi-Lo Country”. İçinde S. Cowdell, C. Fleming, & J. Hodge (Ed.), Mimesis, movies, and media. (ss. 149-167). Bloomsbury Academic.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Linguistics
Journal Section Turkish language and literature
Authors

Ayşe Dilara Bostan This is me 0000-0002-0651-8463

Mesut Bostan 0000-0002-3770-3557

Publication Date August 21, 2022
Published in Issue Year 2022 Issue: 29

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APA Bostan, A. D., & Bostan, M. (2022). Mimetik teori ve sinema: Tutku Oyunları filminde arzu ve nefret. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi(29), 357-369. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1164175

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