The Invisible Subject of Turkish Cinema: Workers

Number: 12 February 1, 2010
  • Yrd. Doç. Dr. Zeliha Hepkon
  • Yrd. Doç. Dr. Oya Şaki Aydın
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The Invisible Subject of Turkish Cinema: Workers

Abstract

The process of commercialization of Turkish Cinema which began during 1950's brings together efforts to create a new cinematic language. Yeşilçam period also introduced a realist approach languished during 1970's. The films which were produced in this period bring up the character of "worker" who started to be one of the main social segments of big cities after industrialization process. From 1980 to the present neoliberal policies put into practice determined conditions. This study would like to search how Turkish cinema represents working class. Do they deal with their daily lives and problems or do they make up the foreground only? Workers and their lives could find very limited place in Turkish Cinema. This study wants to search main reasons of this "absence" of working class character by analyzing the films which can be accepted as examples of "working class cinema".

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Turkish

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Authors

Yrd. Doç. Dr. Zeliha Hepkon

Yrd. Doç. Dr. Oya Şaki Aydın

Publication Date

February 1, 2010

Submission Date

February 4, 2014

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Published in Issue

Year 1970 Number: 12

APA
Hepkon, Y. D. D. Z., & Aydın, Y. D. D. O. Ş. (2010). Türk Sinemasının Görünmeyen Öznesi: İşçiler. Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Dergisi, 12, 79-103. https://izlik.org/JA57KA82WK

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