Browsing Dept. of Communication and Design - Master's degree by Title
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Acousmetre : the disembodied voice in cinema
(Bilkent University, 2008)This study is an attempt to explore the offscreen cinematic space in terms of sound with a special focus on voice, and to analyze the disembodied voices in cinema, in light of the theoretical framework of Michel Chion ... -
Aesthetic experience in performance art : Marina Abramović the artist is present
(Bilkent University, 2013)This thesis explores the possibility of an embodied, corporeal and transforming aesthetic experience that performance art may reveal. The artistic practice of Marina Abramović, who witnessed and pioneered the paradigm ... -
Alternative media and democracy : political participation and expression through social media in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2013)We live in a late-modern age characterized by globalization, self-reflexivity and high level of detraditionalization accompanied by the latest developments in the field of communication and information technologies. ... -
Analyzing alternative sports media in Turkey : a case study on Socrates Magazine and Yazıhane
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)Especially in the last century, sports extended its scope and began to be followed by wider audience. Enhancements in the fields of communication and broadcasting enabled people to be more engaged and knowledgeable on ... -
Apocalypse Now : pro-war sentiments in an "anti-war" film
(Bilkent University, 2007)In this study, the film Apocalypse Now is analyzed in terms of its ideological function and messages by using the textualist approach of screen theory. The film is examined as both a pro-war and anti-war film which reveals ... -
Artistic practice in the aftermath of postmodernism : a case study
(Bilkent University, 2017-02)Postmodern discourse is still the dominant factor in the 21st century art production. On the other hand, there have appeared a number of alternative concepts which suggest that the influence of postmodern tendencies on ... -
Audience reception of teen TV dramas : experience of romance and pleasure
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)Teen TV dramas are one of the mediums that provide people with conventional, socially constructed ideals about love which are culturally related to and presented with gender and morality. This thesis mainly discusses how ... -
An autoethnographic research in digital re-collection : art-based inquiry of personal memory
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)The subject-matter of this study is the researcher’s personal digital collection that is recovered from his computer which hasn’t been used for over 10 years and considered to be not functioning. With the help of digital ... -
Breaking binaries : a critical approach to the fifth generation Chinese cinema
(Bilkent University, 2008)How to interpret the self-Orientalized representations in the Fifth Generation Chinese films remains an unresolved problem in cultural and film studies. This thesis underlines some of the major theoretical problems which ... -
Cinephilia and archive : the case of KaraGarga
(Bilkent University, 2014)KaraGarga as an online cinephilic community and an archive offers an experience of a film library. This study aims at gaining an understanding of recent cinephilia, archive debates in the digital age by looking at ... -
Color fingerprints of directors
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)This thesis presents a new analysis and determination method and its example application for the presence of the Kolorit (color use characteristics) specific for a director in his/her films. This characteristic if present ... -
Constructing the visual-essay in theory and practice : a home-dweller's life through the essayistic
(Bilkent University, 2014)Montaigne’s establishment of the essay as a literary genre brought about a revolution of the mind in that it made possible an infinity of new manner’s of expressing thought and human emotion possible. The essayistic ... -
A cryptonymy of cinema : a new psychoanalytical approach to the reading of films
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A cultural renewal : native Americans in road movies
(Bilkent University, 2008)In this thesis, contemporary Native American road films Powwow Highway (Wacks, 1989), Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995), Smoke Signals (Eyre, 1998), and Dreamkeeper (Barron, 2003) are studied in terms of their relation to the ... -
Dismantling the self : exploring the infinite becomings in Orlan's body of work
(Bilkent University, 2010)This study is an attempt to elaborate the significance of multimedia and performance artist Orlan’s body and identity altering practices along the lines of Deleuzian theory, and to explore the points of overlap and resonances ... -
The elevator ride: in fact and fiction
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)The Elevator is the intersection of space, time, and sound. Space that designs a democratic communication and interaction among people from all walks of life, time that is amplified and in motion, and sound, that is in ... -
The end of film theory and the task of film interpretation : a pathway to the philosophical turn
(Bilkent University, 2011)The aim of this study is to interrogate film interpretation in terms of Heideggerian thinking as a pathway for arguments in the history of film theory via the idea of “happening” in the art. For this reason, the “happening ... -
Esports : alternative fandom research in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)A fan can be anyone who has both potential media consumer and producer. Fandom as we call, is a community of fans interested in a specific media context such as actor, author or TV series. This study is about the developing ... -
The ethical turn and cinema : politics and aesthetics of Jacques Rancière
(Bilkent University, 2011)French philosopher Jacques Rancière has worked on wide range of topics including democracy, literature, the visual arts, particularly film. After translation of his works to English, he found a wide audience and academic ... -
Fantasy films as a postmodern phenomenon
(Bilkent University, 2011)The aim of this research is to analyze the fantasy fiction genre films as a postmodern phenomenon. With various ways of looking into the texts, the study focuses on the narrative structure of the fantasy formations with ...
