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The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography

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The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography

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This study is a sociological analysis of cinema that examines how the modernist understanding of art and Yavuz Turgul’s critical stance toward Turkish modernization shape his cinematography. While the conflict between tradition and modernity became evident in Turgul’s early career, which began with Arzu Film, his mature films, such as The Bandit (Eşkıya, 1996), Lovelorn (Gönül Yarası, 2004), and For Love and Honor (Kabadayı, 2007), are positioned around the tension between modernism and postmodernism. Although the director critically discusses modernism, his cinematic language fundamentally maintains a modernist quest for order, meaning, and moral consistency. The aspects of Turkish modernization that produce exclusion, silencing, and cultural discontinuity are evident, particularly through character positioning, spatial representations, symbolism of names, and motifs of silence. The study utilizes critical discourse analysis to examine these discursive structures since it enables the analysis of linguistic and/or visual signs, power relations, the positioning of the modern subject, and the representation of postmodern ambiguity in the films. The research focuses on the following questions: 1) How does Turgul’s modernist discourse evolve over time? 2) What ideological codes of Turkish modernization are his critique of modernism associated with? 3) How does the postmodern condition produce the uncertainty and value erosion are represented cinematically? The study’s central argument is that, despite his critiques of modernism, Turgul’s cinema maintains a fundamentally modernist vision of the world; amid the atmosphere of fluidity and instability of the postmodern era, he clings more strongly to modern categories: order, rationality, and moral consistency.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Sinema Kuramları, Sinema (Diğer)

Bölüm

İnceleme Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

24 Mart 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

2 Ağustos 2025

Kabul Tarihi

25 Aralık 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Sayı: 72

Kaynak Göster

APA
Çatalbaş, A. Ü. (2026). The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, 72, 186-201. https://doi.org/10.47998/ikad.1756716
AMA
1.Çatalbaş AÜ. The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi. 2026;(72):186-201. doi:10.47998/ikad.1756716
Chicago
Çatalbaş, Adem Üstün. 2026. “The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography”. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, sy 72: 186-201. https://doi.org/10.47998/ikad.1756716.
EndNote
Çatalbaş AÜ (01 Mart 2026) The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi 72 186–201.
IEEE
[1]A. Ü. Çatalbaş, “The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography”, İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, sy 72, ss. 186–201, Mar. 2026, doi: 10.47998/ikad.1756716.
ISNAD
Çatalbaş, Adem Üstün. “The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography”. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi. 72 (01 Mart 2026): 186-201. https://doi.org/10.47998/ikad.1756716.
JAMA
1.Çatalbaş AÜ. The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi. 2026;:186–201.
MLA
Çatalbaş, Adem Üstün. “The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography”. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, sy 72, Mart 2026, ss. 186-01, doi:10.47998/ikad.1756716.
Vancouver
1.Adem Üstün Çatalbaş. The Contrast of Modernism and Post-modernism in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinematography. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi. 01 Mart 2026;(72):186-201. doi:10.47998/ikad.1756716