• TURKISH ACADEMICS IN EUROPE An Autumn Tale 

  Authors:Bayraktar, Gülümser Deniz
  Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2006)

  
  
• The migration story of Turks in Germany: from the beginning to the end 

  Authors:Soysal, Levent
  Publisher and Date:(Cambrıdge Univ Press, 2008)

  
  
• PERSPECTIVE SCHOLAR LOUISE SPENCE ON COMPARING THE SOAP OPERA TO OTHER FORMS 

  Authors:De Kosnik, Abigail; Spence, Louise
  Publisher and Date:(Univ Press Mississippi, 2011)

  
  
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  A Moebial Ride through Polanski's Repulsion 

  Authors:Tüzün, Defne
  Publisher and Date:(Univ Pittsburgh, 2020)

  This article examines Roman Polonski's film Repulsion from a psychoanalytic perspective by attending Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection. This paper deals primarily with two main focal points. First, it focuses on the film's portrayal of the protagonist, Carole's abjection, her problem of non-differentiation, as evidenced by her relation to the maternal body and to corporeality. Secondly, the article investigates how the film positions its viewers with regard to Carole. It questions how Repulsion ...

  
  
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  Cinema Has Split the Girl's Soul Into Pieces: Scrutinizing Representations of Women in Films From Turkey 

  Authors:Cengiz, Esi̇n Paça
  Publisher and Date:(University of Southern California, 2020)

  The 1980s in Turkey were marked by the emergence of new cinematic forms, including films dealing with issues regarding female subjectivity. This article argues that within the scope of an extensive body of films produced about women in the 1980s, Her Name Is Vasfiye, Aaahh Belinda!, How to Save Asiye, Ten Women, and My Dreams, My Love and You opened up a significant space for discussions about ideological constructions concerning images of women in cinema. By deploying reflexive and fragmented ...

  
  
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  Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent
  Publisher and Date:(Sage Publications, 2021)

  I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in terms of a monstrous transgression of the law. But since the monster is grounded in its very formlessness, it cannot be demonstrated. However, one can always try to de-monstrate it through disagreements. In doing this, I deal with despotism not as a solipsistic undertaking but ...

  
  
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  "Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2017)

  The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always interact in subtle ways, which is why cinema can be a resource for diagnostic social analysis. We first articulate a general commentary on the relationship between cinema and society, introducing the concept of socio-fiction'. Secondly, we analyse Peter Sellers' Being There, an ...

  
  
• The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent
  Publisher and Date:(Duke University Press, 2019)

  The article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle. A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its explicit focus on the economic element in the nexus of despotism, economy, and voluntary servitude. Discussing this nexus in an ancient context, the article turns to The Circle, a dystopic novel from 2013, which elaborates on how the attempt at creating a transparent society ...

  
  
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  Accented Essays: Documentary as Artistic Practice in Contemporary Audiovisual Works from Turkey 

  Authors:Akçalı Kuyucu, Elif
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2019)

  This article looks at the use of documentary filmmaking in contemporary artistic practices in Turkey, specifically focusing on three works that adopt a first-person, subjective viewpoint: Didem Pekun's Of Dice and Men (2016), Sener ozmen's How to Tell of Peace to a Living Dove? (2015), and Aykan Safoglu's Off-White Tulips (2013). Made by artists in transition, these films tackle themes of belonging and identity through stylistic choices proper to essayistic filmmaking, which allow these works to ...

  
  
• The collector's world 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020)

  The article discusses the figure of the collector. We start with positioning the collector in relation to a lack, emphasizing that collecting is not about aesthetic beauty, pleasure or even perfectness, but primarily about filling a gap. The collection itself is merely a by-product of the desire to collect. Discussing how this desire is socially mediated, we move on to contextualizing the collector in relation to the distinction between the useful and the useless. We stress, in this context, that ...

  
  
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  Zihinsel koleksiyonlar: Yeşilçam'dan beyazcama 

  Authors:Kotaman, Aslı
  Publisher and Date:(Mehtap Yüksel, 2009)

  Walter Benjamin, eşya koleksiyonculuğu yapan kişiler hakkında yazmış ve hayatından mutlu olmayan insanların eski objeleri toplayarak kendilerine alternatif bir yaşam kurduklarını ve bu yolla adeta geçmişi çağırdıklarını söylemiştir. Bu insanlar geçmişten topladıkları eşyaları bugünkü hayatlarına iliştirirler. Zihnimizde geçmişe dair bir izleği sürersek anıların bize bazen bir koku, bazen Proust’un madleni gibi bir tat ve çoğu zamansa görsel imgeler halinde gelmekte olduğunu görürüz. Bir şeyi ...

  
  
• Migration the sociology of mobility and critical theory 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent
  Publisher and Date:(Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  Being one of my PhD supervisors John’s influence on my intellectual life has been decisive in many respects. However his work has inspired me especially in relation to three fields: immigration the sociology of critique and the critique of mobility. The following is a reflective account of this. First I focus on immigration in the prism of mobility. Then I turn to the sociology of critique in the framework of mobility. Finally I revisit the link between critique and immobility relating this to the ...

  
  
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  Introduction: Orienting Istanbul-cultural capital of Europe? 

  Authors:Göktürk, Deniz; Soysal, Levent; Türeli, Ipek
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)

  
  
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  Future(s) of the city: Istanbul for the new century 

  Authors:Soysal, Levent
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)

  
  
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  Istanbul convertible: A Magic Carpet Ride through genres 

  Authors:Bayraktar, Gülümser Deniz; Akçalı Kuyucu, Elif
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)

  
  
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  The Politics of Documentary 

  Authors:Behlil, Melis; Spence, Louise
  Publisher and Date:(CINEASTE, 2008)

  
  
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  Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction 

  Authors:Behlil, Melis; Spence, Louise
  Publisher and Date:(CINEASTE, 2008)

  
  
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  Working-Class Hero: Michael Moore's Authorial Voice and Persona 

  Authors:Spence, Louise; Navarro, Vinicius
  Publisher and Date:(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

  
  
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  In Focus: Non-Western Historiography? Introduction 

  Authors:Guratai, Ahmet; Spence, Louise
  Publisher and Date:(Univ Texas Press, 2010)

  
  
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  Pushing the boundaries of the historical documentary: Su Friedrich's 1984 The Ties That Bind 

  Authors:Spence, Louise; Cengi̇z, Esi̇n Paça
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)

  This article argues that Su Friedrich's 1984 film The Ties That Bind employs what were at the time atypical forms and techniques to push the limits of the traditional historical documentary. Its aesthetic experimentation helps to redefine the idea of historical representation in film and does so mainly by treating evidence as both partial (in both senses of the word) and contingent offering a radical challenge to normative history and destabilizing the notion of history as authority. Unlike ...

  
  

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