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Visual literacy, metafiction, and horror movies : an account of self-reflexivity in the new stalker film
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This study investigates the significance of metafiction, game, and
visual literacy as they relate to today's changing practices of
spectatorship. These concepts are elaborated in relation to the
rebirth of the eighties' ...
The dynamic interaction between advertising and popular culture : a case study on Ixir TV commercials
(Bilkent University, 2006)
In the scope of the thesis, the “advertising” concept--rather than its economic
dimension-- is taken as a matter of culture under the form of popular culture, serving
as a repository for social and cultural data. How the ...
Spaces of boredom : imagination and the ambivalence of limits
(Bilkent University, 2005)
This study aims to contribute readings of arguments pertaining to and
conceptualizations of the experience of boredom to discussions of art, philosophy and
culture. Relevant histories and readings of philosophical accounts ...
Language, origin and mimesis : a particular reading of the relationship between word and image
(Bilkent University, 2004)
In the historical affinity of West, language has always been ‘erected’ as a
construct of Idea (sign/presence/speech/logos). In this ‘logocentric teleology’
(Derrida), opposition between nature and institution, play of ...
Ambivalent and shifting codes of fear and desire in Dracula movies
(Bilkent University, 2004)
This study, which takes Robin Wood’s methodology to find the answer to the question
‘what does the monster stand for?’ as its base with certain nuances, investigates the
ambivalent and shifting sets of connotations ...
The ultrasound fetal image : the event of birth, female body and medical discourse
(Bilkent University, 2008)
The use of ultrasound fetal image has become common in medical practice. The
ultrasound is a contemporary result of a long medical and technological history, in
which the human body and its pathologies are known and ...
An approach of mistrust : the representation of 'paranoia' in the films of Terry Gilliam
(Bilkent University, 2001)
This study aims at investigating the representation on
‘paranoia’ in the films, 12 Monkeys (1995), Brazil (1985),
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), and Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), by Terry Gilliam. ...
Putting genealogy into perspective : for a genealogical critique of design and designers
(Bilkent University, 2001)
In this work, genealogy, as a form of historical critique inaugurated by Friedrich
Nietzsche and later taken up, refined and consolidated by Michel Foucault, has been
extensively studied. Since Foucault was responsible ...
Figuring the orient : a discussion of orientalism within the context of Ferzan Özpetek's films
(Bilkent University, 2004)
This study aims to inaugurate a thorough reading of two films by Ferzan Özpetek
that employ Orient as their setting and major narrative element, Hamam (1997) and
Harem Suare (1999), to examine their complicity with the ...
Undoing recognition : a critical approach to pose in photography
(Bilkent University, 2006)
This study aims to give an account of the act of posing in photography in terms of the
self/image relationship in order to foreground an unexplored aspect of the pose that is
its potential to question (self-)recognition ...