Aesthetics of displacement : : Turkey and its minorities on screen / / Özlem Koksal.

• Author: Köksal, Özlem.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Topics and issues in national cinema ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"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. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

FC ; Half title; Topics and Issues in National Cinema; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations/Acronyms; Introduction; 1 Memory, Identity: The Turkish Context; 2 Recurring Themes and Motifs; 3 Covering and Discovering: Non-Muslim Minorities and Film; 4 Representing the Armenian Genocide: Ararat and Beyond; 5 The Kurdish Question in Films; Coda: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; Notes; Bibliography; Index