Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen (Topics and Issues in National Cinema)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501320181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Exploring film as an art-form and the work of a variety of directors, including Yesim Ustaoglu and Hiner Saleem, The Aesthetics of Displacement emphasizes the importance of understanding plural identities - not just within Turkey but in other parts of the world as well. Koksal rigorously analyzes these films in the light of memory, language, and minority experience while providing a brilliant and engaging history of Turkish cinema-particularly its relationship to aesthetics, identity, and genocide. She argues with justification that, within a country that since the days of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has advocated a single construction of identity, many recent filmmake
Özlem Köksal is Lecturer in Film Television and Moving Image at the University of Westminster, UK.
Ozlem Koksal focuses on films that bring taboo issues concerning the repression of minorities into visibility, arguing that the changing political and social conditions determine not only the types of stories told but also the ways in which these stories are told.Focusing on aesthetic and narrative continuities, the films discussed include Ararat, Waiting for the Clouds and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia among others. Each film is examined in light of major historical event(s) and their context (political and social) as well as the impact these events had on the construction of both minority and Turkish identity.. Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey's minorities, Aesthetics of Displacement argues that there is a particular aesthetic continuity among the otherwise unrelated films