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Yeşilçam in letters : a "cinema event" in 1960s Turkey from the perspective of an audience discourse
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This study examines “Ye§il9am event” in Turkish cinema from the perspective of an
audience discourse that is reconstituted from the audience letters published in popular
cinema magazines Sinema and Perde. Through a study ...
Figure and flesh : Francis Bacon's challenge to the figurative tradition in Western art
(Bilkent University, 2002)
When figuring the body is at stake within the Western tradition of art, figuration comes up as
a question of framing and controlling the mass of body (flesh, bones, body liquids etc…). The
apparent obsession of Western ...
A review of the "ontology" of photography
(Bilkent University, 2004)
This study is the culmination of a speculative attempt to understand and restate the
enigma of photography. It aims to supplement the thought of photography with a host of
concepts that seem to have escaped the scope of ...
Islamic art and ornamentation: Reflections on the study of art from Alois Riegl to Ernst Gombrich and beyond
(Bilkent University, 2000)
In this study certain arguments about two different but
related phenomena are presented: Islamic art and
ornamentation. The problem of maintaining a relevant
definition for both cases is emphasized by giving
examples ...
A design model for the space planning of child care centers
(Bilkent University, 1999)
Since the activities that children involve provide the attainment of
abilities in the developmental fields of the early childhood period, the
organization of the space through the activity centers influences the
improvements ...
A theoretical discussion on framing: and the frame through deconstruction
(Bilkent University, 1999)
This study aims at investigating deconstruction, and how a theoretical discussion on
framing may be arrived at through such an investigation. For this pupose, some of
the concepts such as ‘logocentricm’, ‘differance’, ...
Center vs periphery : visual representation of the party scenes in Yeşilçam melodramas
(Bilkent University, 1997)
In this study a particular aspect of melodramas (namely, party scenes) in the
heyday of the Turkish cinema, especially between the early 1960s and the
mid-1970s, is analyzed. In this respect, the visual representation ...
"Septemvriiche" newspaper as a visual representation of the state-party-art-culture relations in Bulgaria 1946-1993
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This study lays in the general fields of “arts and politics” and “arts and state”
relationships. These indisputably broad fields are restricted in this work by
concentrating on a specific historical period (1946-1993), ...
The role of documentation in contemporary art : issues of institutional practice
(Bilkent University, 2004)
In this research study, documentation’s role in contemporary art
described and exemplified according to its relation to the institutional
practices of classifying, defining and displaying artworks. Issues and
problems, ...
Experimental video art : on the borders between theory and practice
(Bilkent University, 2011)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the new image and thought in reference to
philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Thus, his discussions on art and cinema are studied
thoroughly. The revelation of affects, percepts and sensations ...