Introductory Readings
Cinema in Turkey: a new critical history by Savas Arslan
ISBN: 9780195370065
With over six thousand films, Turkey has produced more films
than any other country in the Middle East or the Balkans. Despite its prolific
and popular nature, this national film industry has often been denigrated as
imitative, simplistic, and underdeveloped. Taking up precisely these critiques,
Cinema in Turkey provides a critical history of feature cinema in Turkey,
considering how this cinema developed modes of communication reflective of both
existing traditions and region-specific responses to modernization and
nation-building. ...
Directory of world cinema. Turkey by Eylem Atakav, ed.
ISBN: 9781841506203
Since the 1990s, filmmakers in Turkey have increasingly
explored notions of gender, genre, cultural memory, and national and
transnational identity. Taking these themes as its starting point, this
book--the first English-language directory of Turkish films--provides an
extensive historical overview the country's cinema since the early 1920s. ...
New cinema, new media: reinventing Turkish cinema
by Murat Akser; Deniz Bayrakdar
ISBN: 9781443856881
This volume covers approaches concerning the relationship
between innovation in cinema and the politics of filmmaking in new cinema
practices in Turkey. The contributors focus on historiography, genres,
mainstream and art cinema production, and transnational cinema, as well as
changing narratives and identities. The new cinema movement in Turkey is here
analysed from perspectives of new technologies, new production and distribution
structures, the impact of film training, the televisual industry, new actors in
commercial and art cinema, as well as the impact of the film festival circuit.
...
New cinema in Turkey: filmmakers and identities
between urban and rural space by Giovanni Ottone
ISBN: 9781443812726
New Cinema in Turkey: Filmmakers and Identities between
Urban and Rural Space focuses, with a very precise overview, on Turkish cinema
that, since the mid-90s, has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong
and original authorship, which has been accompanied by a growing recognition at
the international level. This is a personal cinema, which, with a wide variety
of styles and approaches to storytelling, addresses the issues of identity in a
country that is in a crucial phase of its history, in both social and political
terms. ...
Six Turkish filmmakers by Laurence Raw
ISBN: 9780299315405
Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw
shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socioeconomic change on
ordinary people in contemporary Turkey. In analysis of and personal interviews
with Dervis Zaim, Zeki Demirkubuz, Semih Kaplanoglu, Çagan Irmak, Tolga Örnek,
and Palme d'Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Raw draws connections with Turkish
theater, art, sculpture, literature, poetry, philosophy, and international
cinema. A native of England and a twenty-five-year resident of Turkey, Raw
interleaves his film discussion with thoughtful commentary on nationalism,
gender, personal identity, and cultural pluralism.
Ideology in Turkish cinema by Mustafa Mencutekin
ISBN: 9781935295501
Mencutekin takes on the role of ideology in the history of
Turkish cinema critically analyzing the values and ideas that have shaped the
message and stories of Turkish movies. This study is based on the thesis that
to truly explore the specific issues currently vexing Turkish cinema, one has
to confront the aesthetic, technological, and ideological assumptions in the
deeply nationalistic and secular approach to Turkish cinema and how they engage
with the real social values of Turkish society. ...
Imaginaries out of place: cinema, transnationalism and Turkey by Gökçen Karanfil; Serkan Savk
ISBN: 9781443841337
As new geographies of mobility and hybridity make the concept of national identity highly problematic, new questions emerge that challenge and destabilize our conventional ways of thinking. Where do migrants 'belong'? Are they members of a distant nation, or natives of the places in which they live? What kind of changes does the sense of 'Turkishness' undergo, and what does it mean to various Turkish communities living in various parts of the world? ...
Kurdish documentary cinema in Turkey: the politics
and aesthetics of identity and resistance by Koçer, Suncem; Candan, Can, eds.
ISBN: 9781443897983
Without a doubt, this decades most discussed and developed
documentary productions in Turkey come from Kurdistan, a name that provokes
nationalist panic in Turkey, yet delineates distinct cultural, linguistic, and
political boundaries nonetheless. Documentary film productions by Kurdish
filmmakers from Turkey determine the major tendencies of this emergent genre,
with such productions offering a unique opportunity for a nuanced understanding
of national cinema. ...
Turkish cinema: identity, distance and belonging by
Gönül Dönmez-Colin
ISBN: 9781861893703
Films often act as a prism that refracts the issues facing a
nation, and Turkish cinema in particular serves to encapsulate the cultural and
social turmoil of modern-day Turkey. Acclaimed film scholar Gönül Dönmez-Colin
examines here the way that national cinema reveals the Turkish quest for a
modern identity. ...
Women and Turkish cinema by Eylem Atakav
ISBN: 9780415674652
Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish
cinema to come to terms with the military's intervention in politics and
subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic
texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender
politics, cultural identity and representation. ...followed by one page of film
critiques. The division is based on film periods, genres, and mode of
production. By focusing on both art house and popular trash cinema, this volume
does justice to the entire volume of 7,000 films produced in Turkish cinema.
Directory of World Cinema: Turkey. by Atakav, Eylem. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2013.
This is an edited volume of film criticism. It is divided into thematic sections that give a brief introduction to each topic discussed, followed by one page of film critiques. The division is based on film periods, genres, and mode of production. By focusing on both art house and popular trash cinema, this volume does justice to the entire volume of 7,000 films produced in Turkish cinema.
Le cinéma turc. by Basutçu, Mehmet. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996.
This book is a comprehensive attempt to bring together basic information on all the major films, stars, and directors of Turkish cinema for French readers. The sections are mostly divided by chronological perspective. It has beautiful B&W photographer courtesy of Mimar Sinan University’s Turkish Film Institute library.
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East. by Dönmez-Colin, Gönül, ed.London: Wallflower, 2007.
This book has contributions from film scholars discussing cinema from Turkey, Iran, and Egypt. Notable entries on Guney’s Hope, Akad’s Bride, Turgul’s The Bandit, and Ceylan’s Distant.
Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging. by Dönmez-Colin, Gönül.London: Reaktion Books, 2008.
One of the seminal books that discuss the post-1990 “new cinema of Turkey” from an “identities” perspective. Before going into detailed discussion of the new cinema, the book details the old, classical Turkish cinema. It has detailed sections of migrant identities, Yilmaz Guney’s cinema, and gender and sexuality.
“Turkish Cinema.” In Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. by Erdoğan, Nezih, and Deniz Göktürk.Edited by Oliver Leaman, 533–537. London: Routledge, 2001.
This entry is part of a larger volume on MENA Cinema. It has a brief historical and theoretical introduction on early and popular Yeşilçam cinema. The section includes figures on audience size and details how a censorship mechanism controlled production aesthetics. Deals with social issues such as migration cinema.
“On Turkish Cinema.” In Film and Politics in the Third World. by Ilal, Ersan. Edited by John D. H. Downing, 119–129. New York: Praeger, 1987.
Gives a detailed historical overview citing the connection between political events and periods and developments in Turkish cinema. Rely more on facts, figures, and biographical details on personalities then analysis of concepts.
Turkish Cinema: An Introduction. by Woodhead, Christine, ed. London: Centre of Near & Middle Eastern Studies, 1989.
A very early collection of four articles on Turkish cinema. The essay on melodrama is strikingly fresh today.
Turkish Cinema 1970-2007: A Bibliography and Analysis by Ekkehard Ellinger, Kerem Kayi Peter Lang, 2008 -
This handbook on Turkish cinema tries to provide a basis for those who are interested in Turkish cinema in general and for those who wish to do research in the field of Turkish cinema. It comprises two parts, a bibliography and a study on the history of Turkish cinema. With around 6000 entries and two or three times as many cross references, the bibliography forms part one and includes for the first time all kinds of non-Turkish and Turkish publications on the history of Turkish cinema, directors, actors, films and film festivals from 1970 to 2007. Part two is a comprehensive study focusing on various aspects and subjects of Turkish cinema including its beginnings, genres, directors, producers, films, etc.
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