Overview
- Presents a timely discussion of religion and politics in Turkish cinema
- Explores complex relationships between politics, religion and the spectacle in contemporary Turkey
- Critically analyses new Turkish cinema from a sociological and film studies perspective
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Turkish cinema
- Turkish film
- Political cinema
- Religion on screen
- contemporary cinema
- religion and cinema
- the spectacle
- governmentality
- religion in Turkey
- art and religion
- religion and philosophy
- contemporary Turkey
- Moderate Islam
- Gölgesizler
- İftarlık Gazoz
- İtirazım Var
- Takva
- Ulak
- religion and society
About this book
This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema. It investigates their common origin—the spectacle, which each field views as an instrument of governmentality. The book analyses six recent, some of which are internationally known Turkish films: The Messenger (Ulak), A Man’s Fear of God (Takva), Let’s Sin (İtirazım Var), SixtyOne Days (İftarlık Gazoz), The Imam and The Shadowless (Gölgesizler). Thwaites discusses how the cinematic nature of politics and religion unfold amidst the increasing media visibility of religion in contemporary Turkey. The chapters explore the relationship between art and religion, and compare religion and philosophy in their relation to truth, belief, and economy. Through close examination of these films, the author highlights the role of cinema in contemporary Turkey and at the heart of the religious paradigm.
Reviews
“Ebru Thwaites Diken’s important take on contemporary Turkish cinema highlights the multiple layers where religion, politics and audiovisuality entangle. The case studies of films are insights into the recent decades of social transformation of Turkey in terms of urbanism, religion and the republic nation state. The book is a timely reminder about cinema’s important function in not only representingreligion as a stable set of doctrines but as a dynamic part of social reality; a generator of affects and sensations.” (Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ebru Çiğdem Thwaites Diken is Assistant Professor of Sociology at İstinye University, Turkey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Spectacle of Politics and Religion in the Contemporary Turkish Cinema
Authors: Ebru Thwaites Diken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71700-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71699-2Published: 27 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10096-4Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71700-5Published: 09 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 114
Topics: Screen Studies, Religion and Society, Politics and Religion