Browsing Dept. of Graphic Design - Master's degree by Issue Date
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Education in interactive media: a survey on the potentials of computers for visual literacy
(Bilkent University, 1996)This study aims at investigating the potentials of multimedia and computers in design. For this purpose, a general survey on the historical development of computers for their use in education and possibilities related to ... -
Reading product de(sign): an inquiry into discursive aspects of design culture
(Bilkent University, 1996)Every design can be considered as an expression, and every expression conveys meanings to the receiver, of different sorts. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the ways of meaning production and consumption through the ... -
Pictorial space: a comparative account of projective versus constructivist theories of graphic perception
(Bilkent University, 1996)This study aims at constructing an 'overall theoretical outline' that would structure the existing approaches to graphic perception within a comprehensible whole. In this context, two dominant theoretical paradigms, namely ... -
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 ... -
The design of the book as object
(Bilkent University, 1997)The book is an important cultural product that, as well as being a site in which text and image can be found, is first and foremost a physical object. To access a text there must always be a physical support through which ... -
Hero vs antihero: spatial form and the graphic novel
(Bilkent University, 1997)This study attempts to investigate the relations between the formal aspects of the contemporary graphic novel and the fictional character portrayed within these works. The transformation of the comics form into the graphic ... -
Photography in digital environment: changing visual concepts in the photographic system and its impacts on photojournalism
(Bilkent University, 1997)The aim of this study is to discuss the changes in visual concepts o f the photographic system, due to the widespread use o f digital imaging technologies and the impacts of these changes on photojournalism. In this ... -
Filmic space in Turkish melodrama
(Bilkent University, 1997)This study aims at analyzing filmic space in Turkish melodrama films that were influential between 1960-1975. In order to map the theoretical framework for such a study, different^ approaches to filmic space are reviewed ... -
The problems of visual representation of cities in present day Turkey
(Bilkent University, 1997)The intention of this study is to examine the visual representational structure of the present day Turkish cities and their relation to the social and cultural condition. The intention is to define the problematic of the ... -
Mapping the body: major conceptions of human embodiment from the West
(Bilkent University, 1998)Within the humanistic and social sciences of the western world, the human body, the state of being embodied, and the indelible interrelatedness of mind and the body have long been neglected in favour of the mind that is ... -
Representing romance: an investigation of design and signification in the posters of Turkish melodrama 1965-1975
(Bilkent University, 1998)This study aims to investigate the design and signification within the posters of Turkish melodrama 1965-1975 in relation with the representation of romance. Melodrama posters are semiotically interpreted firstly by ... -
An investigation of the relation among religious, aesthetic and power representations in sacred art using the examples of Tibetan Buddhist thanka paintings and Orthodox Christian icons
(Bilkent University, 1998)The aim of this study is to investigate the relation among religious, aesthetic and power representations in Tibetan Buddhist thankas and Orthodox Christian icons because of the sharp differences between the two religions. ... -
Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of art : the cruelty of affect
(Bilkent University, 1999)In this work the influential contemporary French philosopher Gilles Deleuze' s aesthetic theory has been analysed with regard to its philosophical origins. Baruch Spinoza, whose influence is felt in the whole of Deleuze' ... -
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’, ... -
F is for film, G is for Greenaway : the cinematic representation in the films of Peter Greenaway
(Bilkent University, 1999)This study aims at investigating the last eight feature films of the British filmmaker, Peter Greenaway, with regard to the cinematic representation. As opposed to the cinematic representation suggested by the principles ... -
Photography as the writing of light
(Bilkent University, 2000)The purpose of this study is to investigate certain critical approaches to photography and to try to make a re-reading of photographic images, with pursuing some of the reading strategies that French philosopher ... -
George Bataille's notion of transgression : the question of a possible experience concerning art and philosophy
(Bilkent University, 2000)This study aims at analysing George Bataille's notion of transgression. In this respect, the concepts of Bataille's discourse such as 'general economy', 'sovereign operation', 'inner experience', 'impossible', 'absence ... -
From space to cyberspace: a review of the current literature on the emerging cyberspace culture and the ways it affects the human identity, experience and interaction
(Bilkent University, 2000)This work aims at describing the changing conditions for the human subject due to technology and more recently due to the information technology. Exploring the changing perceptions of self in the urban space and ... -
Jean-Luc Godard in Sixties: A Sociological reading of sexuality and politics in the New Wave cinema
(Bilkent University, 2000)This study aims to investigate the representation of sexuality in Jean-Luc Godard’s early movies in order to understand the figuration of femininity as well as masculinity in cinema politically. Being in a specific ... -
Hypertext and critial convergence
(Bilkent University, 2000)Today, within the information and telecommunication technologies, internet technologies occupies the dominant role. Hypertext is the system that underlies many of the main digital multimedia with its capacity to ...
