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Cinema and Politics: Turkish Cinema and The New Europe
Editor: Deniz Bayrakdar Assistant Editors: Aslı Kotaman and Ahu Samav Uğursoy
Date Of Publication: Apr 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0343-4
Isbn: 1-4438-0343-X
This volume presents varied approaches concerning the relation between cinema and politics which focus on policies, eras, countries, mainstream and art cinema productions, transnational examples, changing narratives and identities. Both cinema and politics have actors and directors for their scenes, and in this sense their discourses intermingle. The performances of the “actors/actresses” in both arenas attract particular attention. The actors, directors, and producers with ‘hyphenated/creolised/hybrid identities’ such as German-Turks, directors of Balkan cinema, or Italian filmmakers of Turkish origin give a wide and refreshing perspective to the discussion of Europe in the media. What these ‘mediated identities’ represent goes beyond the limits of the old Europe, towards the different sensitivity of the New Europe.

Scholars and advanced students of Film Studies, European Studies, Identity Politics, Migration / Emigration and Gender Studies will find this volume of integral importance to their work.

Deniz Bayrakdar is the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Vice Rector at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. She has been the organizer of the New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference since 1998, which celebrates its tenth year in 2009. She has published mainly editions on Turkish Cinema; Gender and Media, and Mediated Identities such as:

ROSS, Karen, DERMAN. (eds.) Identity Politics and the Media: Mapping the Margins. Hampton Press, New Jersey, ABD (2002)

ROSS, Karen, DERMAN, Deniz, DAKOVIC, Nevena. (eds.) Mediated Identities. Med-Campus Yayınları (2001)

DERMAN, Deniz, ROSS, Karen. Gender and Media. (eds.) Med-Campus Yayınları, Ankara, 1996

DERMAN, Deniz, LOTHERINGTON, John. (eds.) Communications Revolution. 21st Century Trust, Med-Campus Yayınları, Ankara, 1996

DERMAN, Deniz, DAKOVİC, Nevena, ROSS, Karen. (eds.) Gender and Media. Ankara, 1996

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