Coherence between narrative and montage: diversified becomings in Reha Erdem’s cinema
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Date
2019-12Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
This thesis aims to demonstrate the coherence between narrative and montage in Reha
Erdem’s cinema in dialogue with Deleuzian philosophy and cinema theory, and it
analyzes the parallels and divergences between Erdem’s cinema and Deleuzian
concepts. In order to accomplish this aim, this thesis explores three films from
Erdem’s oeuvre by employing Deleuzian concepts clustered around “becoming”. The
three films are Kosmos (2010), What’s a Human, Anyway? (2004), and Singing
Women (2013), since they carry a thematic commonality in the narrative of the
concept of becoming; and vary with diversified forms of this concept, such as
becoming-animal, woman, and imperceptible in terms of form and narrative. Within
this scope, the thesis reveals Gilles Deleuze’s consistency between his philosophy
developed with Félix Guattari and cinema theory by the agency of Erdem’s cinema.
In addition to underlining the parallels, the narrative and formal analysis also delve
into Erdem’s reinterpretations of and deviations from Deleuzian theory.