Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency

dc.contributor.author Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
dc.contributor.author Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
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dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-14T23:07:58Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-14T23:07:58Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.department Fakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Halkla İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Within the last few years, "Kurdish cinema" has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a national cinema in transnational space. Second, like all media texts, Kurdish films are nationalized in discourse. Third, the communicative strategies used to nationalize Kurdish cinema must be viewed both in the context of the historical forces of Turkish nationalism and against a backdrop of contemporary politics in Turkey, specifically the Turkish government's discourses and policies related to the Kurds. The empirical data for this article derive from ethnographic research in Turkey and Europe conducted between 2009 and 2012. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 16
dc.identifier.doi 10.1017/S0020743814000555 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 488 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0020-7438 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1471-6380 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0020-7438
dc.identifier.issn 1471-6380
dc.identifier.issue 3 en_US
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dc.identifier.startpage 473 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3731
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743814000555
dc.identifier.volume 46 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000340255500003 en_US
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dc.institutionauthor Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Cambrıdge Univ Press en_US
dc.relation.journal International Journal of Middle East Studies en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.title Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency en_US
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