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Savas Arslan

Cinema in Turkey: A New Critical History
Oxford University Press, 2011
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/FilmMediaPerformingArts/FilmStudies/?view=usa&ci=9780195370065

Description
Boasting nearly 7,000 titles, Turkey has produced more films than any
other country in the Middle East or the Balkans. While the films enjoy
great popularity at home, they haven't received the respect they
deserve beyond their borders. Frequently, Turkey's cinema has been
painted as imitative, simplistic or underdeveloped, casting it in
shadow to the West. But things are finally changing. Turkish
filmmakers like Nuri Bilge Ceylan are turning up in cinematheques
worldwide. Critics are taking notice. And now general readers will
have the overview they need to contextualize this remarkable body of
work.

Examining both popular genres and art films, Cinema in Turkey deals
with the country's entire cinematic tradition, including not only its
high point with Yesilcam-Turkey's popular film industry of the 1950s
to the 1980s-but also its early years and current revival. In addition
to surveying the cinematic landscape and recounting its history,
Cinema in Turkey analyzes the arts conventions from which the first
films emerged, region-specific permutations, and the cultural
ramifications of Turkey's distinct forms of modernization and
nation-building.
Features

   * Presents an in-depth comprehensive survey of the overlooked but
vibrant national cinema of Turkey
   * Filled with over forty-five illustrations, encompassing a wide
swath of Turkish film, history, and culture
   * Offers the ideal introduction to Turkish cinema, which will
appeal to cinephiles, general readers, and film students.

Reviews

"Full of fresh ideas, Arslan's book productively reconciles popular
and art house cinema within this study of Turkey's national film
tradition. It brings insights into matters of genre, alternative
cultural geographies, cross-cultural adaptation, and transnational
film historiography. And it successfully tackles the relationship
between Western narratives and their appropriation within modernising
peripheries." --Dina Iordanova, University of St. Andrews

"Ranging from international art films to the Turkish mainstream, from
trash to high-art films, from feminist and auteur theory to
Orientalism, from pornography to melodrama, from the Silent Era to New
Media, this book is rich in its reference, deep in its understanding,
and clear in its analysis." --Ronald Green, Ohio State University

Product Details
336 pages; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-537006-5ISBN10: 0-19-537006-6

About the Author(s)

Savas Arslan is Associate Professor of Film and Television at
Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the coeditor of
Media, Culture and Identity in Europe and the author of Melodrama (in
Turkish).