Yeşilçam in letters : a "cinema event" in 1960s Turkey from the perspective of an audience discourse
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Advisor
Özgüç, BülentDate
2002Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
This study examines “Ye§il9am event” in Turkish cinema from the perspective of an
audience discourse that is reconstituted from the audience letters published in popular
cinema magazines Sinema and Perde. Through a study of the letters, it is observed
that neither Ye§il9am cinema that marks the 1960s can be reduced to a film industry
nor the social experience of it could be evaluated in terms of a cinema-audience
relation consisting merely of movie going and film viewing. The topics and the forms
of expressions in the letters suggest that Ye§il9am was a “cinema event” diffused
throughout everyday life especially through social images of stars and that the
audiences had an important role in its (re)production and circulation outside movie
theatre.