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Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations

Cilt: 19 Sayı: 37 23 Haziran 2021
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Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations

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Although Istanbul is a rich city in terms of cinema representation, it is difficult to find competent films that shed light on the modern city. Rather, a large part of these films depicts the city utilising the most popular and stereotypical discourses and images. During the Hollywood and Yeşilçam eras, Istanbul has been cinematised and visualised predominantly through three colours: pink to exoticise, black to detract, and white to sacralise. Hollywood has focused mostly on the Bosphorus Strait and the Historic Peninsula, while Yeşilçam gained insight into the gecekondus (squatters) and internal immigrants’ lives. But, with time, each colourisation and depiction by Hollywood and Yeşilçam turned into a rigid cliché—so much so, in fact, that each social and spatial relationship was shown as being either a mysterious beauty or as a fatal ugliness, as if everything in the city were purely without antithesis. This study paves the way for updating traditional expressions by summarizing the visual and textual corpus of cinematic Istanbul. As a matter of fact, the sociological perspective towards Istanbul is largely built on these cinematic narratives.

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Teşekkür

I would like to thank my supervisors Prof. Bülent Diken and Prof. Graeme Gilloch at Lancaster University for their guidance in improving this paper, which is written as a chapter of my PhD thesis.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

23 Haziran 2021

Gönderilme Tarihi

22 Şubat 2021

Kabul Tarihi

5 Mayıs 2021

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2021 Cilt: 19 Sayı: 37

Kaynak Göster

APA
Demir, S. T. (2021). Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, 19(37), 125-146. https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH
AMA
1.Demir ST. Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations. TALİD. 2021;19(37):125-146. https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH
Chicago
Demir, Sertaç T. 2021. “Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations”. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi 19 (37): 125-46. https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH.
EndNote
Demir ST (01 Haziran 2021) Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi 19 37 125–146.
IEEE
[1]S. T. Demir, “Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations”, TALİD, c. 19, sy 37, ss. 125–146, Haz. 2021, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH
ISNAD
Demir, Sertaç T. “Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations”. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi 19/37 (01 Haziran 2021): 125-146. https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH.
JAMA
1.Demir ST. Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations. TALİD. 2021;19:125–146.
MLA
Demir, Sertaç T. “Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations”. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, c. 19, sy 37, Haziran 2021, ss. 125-46, https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH.
Vancouver
1.Sertaç T. Demir. Representations of Cinematic Istanbul: Expressions, Clichés and Transformations. TALİD [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2021;19(37):125-46. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA77SE82AH