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Gesturing toward utopia: queer time and place in the performance Art of Cassils, boychild and Marval A Rex
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)
This thesis examines queer body/performance art concentrating on the concepts of time and space. Prioritizing the approach of queer theory to the perception of time and space, the performances of Cassils, boychild and ...
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 ...
A passage to screen : adapting E M Forster
(Bilkent University, 2008)
This study aims to demonstrate the specific narrative and
representational aspects of two very-well known adaptations
based on English author E. M. Forster‘s novels: A Passage
to India and A Room with a View that challenge ...
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 ...
A perceptional model to understand immersion
(Bilkent University, 2009)
The aim of this study is to offer a new model for the
concept of immersion based on the process of perception in
humans. The motivation behind the study is that although
the concept of immersion points to an important ...
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 ...
1-GO 1-E: the development of durational aesthetics in mixed media sculpture
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)
This thesis investigates the development of a technique for the depiction of motion in painting through mixed media sculpture. Utilizing stacked glass layers as the spatial medium, 1-Go 1-E conceptualizes the technique ...
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 ...