Reproduction of Turkishness on television: an analysis of TRT series
Author(s)
Advisor
Çınar, Meral UğurDate
2021-09Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This thesis analyses two different TRT series to reveal when and how Turkishness is
reproduced on television. These two series are Sevda Kuşun Kanadında and Seksenler.
The thesis makes use of an interpretative approach in which the components of themes,
music, contexts, characters and narratives are analysed within the social and political
context of the post-putsch era in Turkish politics. The analysis demonstrates that
Turkishness is reproduced as its banal and hot forms; both separately and conjoined
together. In this regard, Turkishness is reproduced through homeland deixis, the
dichotomy of us vs. them and references to common history and Ottoman past.