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The talking witness documentary: remembrance and the politics of truth
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013)
This article argues that the conventional talking witness documentary by relying on memory of experience as evidence employs an inherently conservative politics of truth. Using a recent Kurdish video 5 No.lu Cezaevi/Prison ...
Working-Class Hero: Michael Moore's Authorial Voice and Persona
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
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Selections from The Fight for National Cinema
(Univ Texas Press, 2016)
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Essayistic Tendencies in Contemporary Kurdish Filmmaking in Turkey
(Univ Illinois Press, 2019)
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Pushing the boundaries of the historical documentary: Su Friedrich's 1984 The Ties That Bind
(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 ...
Accented Essays: Documentary as Artistic Practice in Contemporary Audiovisual Works from Turkey
(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 ...
The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle
(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 ...
"Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump
(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 ...