Dept. of Communication and Design - Master's degree
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Item Open Access Authorship in video game adaptations(Bilkent University, 2021-08) Günal, SerenayThe purpose of this thesis is to examine how authorship of video game adaptations is handled as a discursive concept. Auteur theory was created and analyzed as a critical method in the film medium. The thesis researches the adaptability and applicability of this theory into video games and video game adaptations. The findings from the literature review are then compared to a survey of players‘ perceptions and experiences of authorship in video gaming. The survey was conducted in four subtopics to examine player‘s opinions on their preferences in video games, transmedia and adaptation, game creators and creative roles, and lastly, impressions of authorship in video games and adaptations. Another angle on authorship in video game adaptations is the author-driven genre, with a case study of four different Lovecraftian video games; Conarium (2017) and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) as direct and Bloodborne (2015) and Darkest Dungeon (2016) as heavily inspired video games inspired by the early 20th-century stories of H. P. Lovecraft. The chapter aims to analyze how literary authorship creates a genre and a brand of its own in video gaming. Lastly, the thesis analyzes transmedia storytelling with a case study of authorship in The Witcher franchise, in which the adapted video games have assumed a more prominent international position than their literary sources.Item Open Access A Case study of american-to-turkish transnational television adaptations(Bilkent University, 2015) Erdoğan, Seza EsinThis thesis provides a close reading of Turkish television series Doktorlar (2006- 2011) and Medcezir (2013-2015) as transnational adaptations of American dramas Grey’s Anatomy (2005) and The O.C. (2003-2007). The research deals closely with adaptation studies, its theory and its appeal for audiences and producers. Additionally, aspects of globalization of the television market and format trade as catalysts in making television content transnational and transcultural are discussed in detail. Later, the relationship of Turkish television series is demonstrated showing Turkey’s presence in the format market and the global television content trade. Conclusively, Doktorlar and Grey’s Anatomy, and Medcezir and The O.C. are comparatively analyzed as transnational/transcultural television adaptations from United States to Turkey. It is concluded that both of these Turkish series derive from their source texts immensely, yet the added local flavor is emblematic of the tendencies and practices of Turkish television as themes of motherhood and morality are sustained while refraining from excessive portrayal of sexuality and avoiding themes of homosexuality altogether. Meanwhile, some recurring themes, industrial tendencies, and the emerging innovative approaches in Turkish television are also mentioned.Item Open Access Metin Erksan’s The Female Hamlet as an intercultural adaptation(Bilkent University, 2018-05) Erkoç, Cansu BegümThis thesis analyses famous Turkish director Metin Erksan’s film, The Female Hamlet as an intercultural adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The relationship between literature and cinema, the discussion of originality / fidelity and then the interculturality is examined in the thesis as theoretical parts and in the light of these discussions, in the final part, The Female Hamlet is analysed as an intercultural adaptation.Item Open Access A passage to screen : adapting E M Forster(Bilkent University, 2008) Doğan, ZeynepThis 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 and reinterpret the motives of their source texts in conjunction with the issues and debates regarding the heritage film by displaying woman’s sexuality.Item Open Access Re-imagining the world : retelling fairy tales in moving image(Bilkent University, 2011) Aydeniz, HaticeThis study aims to depict the fact that adaptations are all kind of intertextual texts in the postmodern world where every text undergoes a process of adaptation. With the aims of pointing at this dialogic process, the term “retelling” is used both for the adaptation processes and products throughout the thesis, instead of the term adaptation. Keeping this in mind, the thesis examines the fairy tales “Snow White” and “Little Red Riding Hood” with their retellings both in literature and film. These analyses include structural, narrative and feminist criticisms as well as the consideration of the affects of postmodernism. Through these evaluations it becomes clear that while some retellings pose a very contradictory point of view for the tales abovementioned, some still adjust to the traditional ideological teachings of the earlier versions of the tales.Item Open Access Subjectivizing children: melancholy in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Peter and Wendy(Bilkent University, 2023-08) Doğan, Şule NurThis thesis is concerned with the subjectivation of children in children’s literature and film, and the melancholy caused to child characters as they are forced down a path of growing up as conceived by adults. Engaged in a close reading of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Peter and Wendy (1911), as well as their select film adaptations Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Return to Never Land (2002), Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), and finally Peter Pan and Wendy (2023), the thesis is also committed to a discourse analysis of the concepts of childhood and growing up. As the thesis is concerned with works occupying a timeframe of over a century, the shifts in Western children’s literature and film, as well as their introduction into the Disney machinery is also considered. Approaching this multitude of attitudes towards how child characters relate to adulthood and growing up, the thesis connects this issue in relation to the dynamic between the Western colonizer and the colonized subjects, as the former desubjectivizes the latter in a similar dynamic to the one between adults and children.Item Open Access What do audiences think about literary adaptations: a reception study on Turkish TV series and fidelity(Bilkent University, 2017-01) Ecevit, AygenFidelity discussion has a long history in adaptation studies and despite all negative criticism towards fidelity concern, the discussion about fidelity still remains. This thesis, with its audience based perspective, aims to contribute to this discussion by exploring the spectators’ perception about fidelity with a discourse analysis in respect of two main questions: Do audiences care about fidelity? If so, what does fidelity mean according to them? To investigate these issues, two Turkish TV series, Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love) and Behzat Ç. Bir Ankara Polisiyesi (Behzat Ç. An Ankara Detective Story) are selected as case studies and discourse analysis, as a method, is used. In order to gather information about their reception, analyzing Ekşi Sözlük (Sour Dictionary) entries about these two series’ is used as the methodology. Susers’, who are also readers and spectators, entries who mentioned their idea about fidelity and adaptation are collected and they compared between these cases. As main results, it reveals that fidelity care is fairly low for both of them but they have different kind of fidelity notions. Furthermore, this study also demonstrates these susers’ comparative fandom behaviors and it attempts to enlighten how do their habit of writing entries and being a part of a specific online community enrich their experience of watching these shows.