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NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION?

Cilt: 13 Sayı: 26 16 Ekim 2025
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NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION?

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This article explores the representation of “otherness” in New Turkish Cinema by examining Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia within the framework of Orientalism and post-Orientalism. It investigates whether the film’s portrayal of Anatolian rural life reinforces Orientalist discourse or reflects a post-Orientalist vision that redefines otherness through hybridity and cultural negotiation. Drawing on Homi K. Bhabha’s concepts of “hybridity” and the “third space,” the study argues that Ceylan’s depiction of otherness is neither externalized nor romanticized. Instead, it arises through coexistence marked by ambiguity, contradiction, and mutual interaction. The film’s spatial aesthetics invite viewers to question the boundaries between subject and object, center and periphery, East and West, while evoking a sense of being suspended between the finite and the infinite. Through this, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia transcends conventional Orientalist narratives by critiquing both Western perceptions of Turkey and Turkey’s internal construction of the “other.” Ceylan transforms the rural landscape from a site of exoticism into a “third space” of cultural and ideological exchange. The film thus reconfigures otherness as a dynamic process of interaction rather than a fixed opposition. Ultimately, it mediates between Orientalist and post-Orientalist discourses, encouraging audiences to reconsider both Anatolian identity and their own interpretive standpoint.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sinema Sosyolojisi

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

16 Ekim 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

9 Mayıs 2025

Kabul Tarihi

13 Ekim 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 13 Sayı: 26

Kaynak Göster

APA
Ertürk, E. (2025). NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION? HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 13(26), 194-216. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.1696167
AMA
1.Ertürk E. NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION? Humanitas. 2025;13(26):194-216. doi:10.20304/humanitas.1696167
Chicago
Ertürk, Emre. 2025. “NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION?”. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 13 (26): 194-216. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.1696167.
EndNote
Ertürk E (01 Ekim 2025) NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION? HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 13 26 194–216.
IEEE
[1]E. Ertürk, “NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION?”, Humanitas, c. 13, sy 26, ss. 194–216, Eki. 2025, doi: 10.20304/humanitas.1696167.
ISNAD
Ertürk, Emre. “NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION?”. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 13/26 (01 Ekim 2025): 194-216. https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.1696167.
JAMA
1.Ertürk E. NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION? Humanitas. 2025;13:194–216.
MLA
Ertürk, Emre. “NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION?”. HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 13, sy 26, Ekim 2025, ss. 194-16, doi:10.20304/humanitas.1696167.
Vancouver
1.Emre Ertürk. NURİ BİLGE CEYLAN’S NARRATIVES IN NEW TURKISH CINEMA: AN AUTO-ORIENTALIST APPROACH IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA? OR A POST-ORIENTALIST NEGOTIATION? Humanitas. 01 Ekim 2025;13(26):194-216. doi:10.20304/humanitas.1696167