Research Article

Constructiong Ankara's Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation

Volume: 10 Number: 1 May 31, 2026
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Constructiong Ankara's Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation

Abstract

As visual and auditory records of the past, actuality films, serve not merely to document events but to construct collective memory and support ideological narratives. As thought of the urban space, rituals, ceremonies, repsentations of people recorded by these films, they play a basic role in shaping the common imagination. As the digitization turned out this films to be more accessible through digital, open access archives, interpretive reuse possibilities of these audio-visual materials for artistic or research purposes arise. Within this framework, the article takes the archival web platform Film Mirasım (Film Heritage) of the Republic of Türkiye, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as the case. The corpus selected of this archive focuses on the actuality films dated between 1923-1950, as the formative years of the Republic’s initial modernization, in the capital city Ankara. Content and discourse analysis is used to analyze the visualization of the capital city Ankara to better understand its role on the setting and the representation of new regime. After the categorization of films categories of symbolic architecture elements and places, recordings of official ceremonies, sports events as the symbol if modern life and citizen and founder politicians specially Atatürk and İsmet İnönü crystallized. As the films were reached out of a digital archive, results also emphasize the role of digitization turning these beyond being a storage space but a space where the cultural memory is kept and open to be written again and again. In this sense, as it is important to keep in mind that the production process of the films and the archive cannot be taken pure subjective, the article emphasizes the two sided structure of digital archives and actuality films, a tool to understand dominant historical, ideological axes and possible elements of alternative, more pluralistic history narrations with their reuse.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Cinema Sociology, Visual Arts (Other), History of The Republic of Turkiye

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

May 31, 2026

Submission Date

August 29, 2025

Acceptance Date

April 27, 2026

Published in Issue

Year 2026 Volume: 10 Number: 1

APA
Gider Işikman, N. (2026). Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 10(1), 115-135. https://doi.org/10.30561/sinopusd.1773972
AMA
1.Gider Işikman N. Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;10(1):115-135. doi:10.30561/sinopusd.1773972
Chicago
Gider Işikman, Nihan. 2026. “Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation”. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 10 (1): 115-35. https://doi.org/10.30561/sinopusd.1773972.
EndNote
Gider Işikman N (May 1, 2026) Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 10 1 115–135.
IEEE
[1]N. Gider Işikman, “Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation”, Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 115–135, May 2026, doi: 10.30561/sinopusd.1773972.
ISNAD
Gider Işikman, Nihan. “Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation”. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 10/1 (May 1, 2026): 115-135. https://doi.org/10.30561/sinopusd.1773972.
JAMA
1.Gider Işikman N. Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026;10:115–135.
MLA
Gider Işikman, Nihan. “Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation”. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 10, no. 1, May 2026, pp. 115-3, doi:10.30561/sinopusd.1773972.
Vancouver
1.Nihan Gider Işikman. Constructiong Ankara’s Urban Memory Through Archival Films and Ideological Representation. Sinop Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2026 May 1;10(1):115-3. doi:10.30561/sinopusd.1773972