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Passing ethnic identities : a case study on comedy in Turkish cinema
(Bilkent University, 2014)
This study analyzes minority representation strategies in Turkish cinema,
particularly Kurds in mainstream comedies. In the study passing is taken into account
as a representation strategy that was developed and sustained ...
Audience reception of teen TV dramas : experience of romance and pleasure
(Bilkent University, 2016-08)
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 ...
Muybridge-500: jog-shuttle as an operational mode of the digital
(Bilkent University, 2018-07)
This thesis investigates the mode of operation of jog-shuttle as a dial in videotape
editing technology and its way of operation. With the development of the technology,
the upgrade culture turns the media devices into ...
The artistic afterlife of electronic waste
(Bilkent University, 2019-12)
This thesis aims to take a closer look at artistic projects that use discarded electronic
parts as preferred medium. Electronic waste cumulates as the result of a highly
technological era. The artworks that take part ...
A case study of Hollywood to Yeşilçam crosscultural film remakes
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)
This study examines a close reading of Yeşilçam films Şoförün Kızı (1965), Fıstık
Gibi Maşallah (1964) and Fıstık Gibi (1970) as cross-cultural remakes of Hollywood
films Sabrina (1954) and Some Like It Hot (1959). The ...
Vısual language of Kawaii: Aestheticization of everyday life
(Bilkent University, 2015)
The notion of “Cute” has been studied as a global aesthetic form in consumer and
popular culture. Aside from being a dominant aesthetic of mass culture, the cute also
became a form of expression with increasing virtual and ...
Technological construction of performance: case of Andy Serkis
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)
Performance in film can be considered as a construction that goes beyond mere recording of the actors to comprise a synthesis of discrete elements that have been removed from their original contexts, rearranged, and reshaped. ...
Occupation of Twitter during gezi movement in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2015)
This thesis will attempt to analyze the occupation of social networking site Twitter
by Gezi protestors just like any other offline public place like Gezi Park and the deoccupation
process of the same platform by the ...
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 ...
The imagery of woman in nineteenth century orientalist photography
(Bilkent University, 2010)
This thesis aims to examine the photographic
representation of the Eastern women, in nineteenth
century. The theoretical framework of this study is based
upon the formation of the representation of the “Eastern
women” ...