@article{article_1779664, title={Transcending the Adaptation Paradigm: The Visual Memory of Literary Objects in Turkish Cinema}, journal={MSGSÜ Akademi Dergisi}, pages={22–41}, year={2025}, author={Sarıbaş, Serap}, keywords={Edebiyat ve Sinema İlişkisi, Bellek Mekanları, Fragman Esteteği, Edebi Nesneler, Türk Sineması}, abstract={This article examines the theoretical constraints of the adaptation-centered paradigm that has long shaped scholarly discourse on the relationship between Turkish cinema and literature. Moving beyond the framework of fidelity, it argues that literature operates not only as a textual source but also as a material presence and an iconographic structure within cinematic space. Written artefacts such as books, letters, notebooks, and reports emerge in Turkish cinema not as decorative props but as cultural figures that render individual memory, collective remembrance, and identity negotiation visible. The visual articulation of these artefacts, when considered through Derrida’s notion of the trace, Benjamin’s conception of the fragment, Adorno’s aesthetics of incompletion, and Nora’s idea of sites of memory (lieux de mémoire), reveals literature in film as a multilayered epistemic field. Methodologically, the study employs close textual and visual analysis to examine how these objects mediate the intersections of aesthetics, memory, and cultural history. Thus, the cinema–literature nexus is redefined through a critical framework that privileges the objecthood and iconographic agency of writing as the locus where cinematic and literary forms converge.}, number={1}, publisher={Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi}