Nowe Kino Turcji | New Cinema of Turkey

Books: New Cinema of Turkey
Nowe Kino Turcji Ed. Jan Topolski [1]

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ ha!art
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Jan. 2010
• Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
• Language ‏ : ‎ Polish
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8361407715
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8361407713

New Cinema of Turkey is an anthology of texts by Turkish, German, English and Polish film critics and experts illustrated with photos from films and directors’ photographs. Limited by themes and connected with works and artists presented at the 10th IFF Era New Horizons.
The book joins two perspectives, of Western authors who reveal Turkish cinematography to them and of Turkish authors who make an attempt to describe it anew. Articles touch upon social relationships (with particular attention to the figure of a woman, a child and a father/husband), transformations in religion and culture under the influence of industrialization and Westernization, the opposition of provinces and the metropolis, and the presence of history and politics. They show how new Turkish cinema interprets classic genres; they try to provide its stylistic specificity; they look for auteur poetics. The anthology discusses the work of such filmmakers as Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Zeki Demirkubuz, Derviş Zaim, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Reha Erdem, Umit Ünal and Kazim Öz.

[1] Jan Topolski (1982) – musicologist, also studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw. As a music and film critic, he collaborates with media outlets such as "Kino," "Ruch Muzyczny," "Dwutygodnik," "Tygodnik Powszechny," Polish Radio's Second Program, "MusikTexte," and "neue musikzeitung." He was co-founder and, from 2004 to 2011, editor-in-chief of "Glissanda," the only Polish magazine devoted to contemporary music. Since 2010, he has been a consultant to Mariusz Treliński, artistic director of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, on contemporary opera and commissions from Polish composers. Author of the first Polish monograph on one of the most important composers of the 20th century, Gerard Grisey, entitled "Phantoms and Times. The Music of Gerard Grisey."