Browsing by Subject "City"

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The architect of city legends : the Great Sinan
(2003) Korkmaz, G. Ezgi
In this study, the traditional definition of legend and its characteristics are compared with that of city legends, moving from three legends about the Great Architect Sinan that are told in the city. It is also examined that under which circumstances and why these legends have emerged in the city as well as their functions in the city life.
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Beyaz perdeden kara perdeye: Kent ve sinema ilişkisinde set olarak Ankara
(Bilkent University, 2020) Kahramaner, Salih Efe; Kuşçu, Duru; Özgöçmen, Elif; Özer, Zeynep İlayda; Şimşek, Efecan
Bu makalede kent kavramı ve kent kültür ilişkisi bağlamında kent olgusunun sinemanın gelişimindeki önemi üzerinde durulmuştur. Cumhuriyet'in ilk yıllarından günümüze kadar olan süreçte Türkiye'nin başkenti Ankara'nın sinema sektöründeki yeri diğer şehirlerle kıyaslanarak incelenmiştir. Ankara'nın Türkiye'nin diğer şehirlerine göre sinemada set olarak zamanla daha az tercih edilmesinin sebepleri ve sonuçları üzerinde durulmuştur. Ankara'da çekilen filmlerin analizleri ve bu filmlerin yönetmenleri ve yapımcıları ile yapılan görüşmeler ile Ankara'nın beyazperdede set olarak tercih edilip edilmemesinin nedenleri araştırılmıştır.
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City dwellers views on the minstrel tale tradition
(2007) Tunç, Gökhan
Studies on minstrel literature are seen to focus on minstrels and their oeuvres. Yet, as researchers like Alan Dundes and Dan Ben Amos underscore, in the creation process of an oral artwork, artist and listeners / receivers play equally vital roles. Hereby, this article will address specifically the highly disregarded issue of listener / receiver. To this end, a survey has been made with a selected group of city dwellers of different social backgrounds and milieus, including primary school, high school and university students, as well as adults. These results of this survey have been interpreted in order both to discuss the constantly changing concept of "folk" and to consider, these groups' attitude towards minstrel literature and their views on this literature.
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The dark night : representing urban anxieties in contemporary superhero films
(2011) Okay, Damla
The comic book superhero is one of the most important cultural products of the United States. From the second quarter of the 20th century on, the iconic and allusional images of the larger-than-life superheroes in colorful costumes took over not only the pages of comic books, but also occasionally, and recently quite frequently, the big screen. Due to the changing tone of the superhero narratives over time and with the help of special effects that enable directors to imagine broader cityscapes, the concept of city, which has always been a fundamental element in superhero comics, gained even more importance on film. This study aims to overview the aesthetics of urban spaces in recent superhero films, as well as the relationship they build with the elements of the city. Additionally this study will investigate and bring together thoughts on the after-effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City as one of the possible reasons of the ‘superhero boom’ of the last decade, and ultimately reach the conclusion that the position of the superhero films towards both urban crime and international terror can be classified as ambiguity.
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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
(2000) Arda, Zeynep
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 in cyberspace, the previously closed self, opens out losing its borders and merges with the milieu. Many authors define this alteration as a disorder, in literature a schizophrenic subject is brought about concerning the erasure of the boundaries that keep the identity distinct. Hence, today the human subject stands in a transition, in the middle of a journey that leads from space to cyberspace, from order to disorder, or from paranoia to schizophrenia; however from time to time departure becomes the destination again and again.
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From within the urban folklore: A METU legend
(2003) Uluğtekin, M.G.
This study tries to deal with the contemporary function of the legend as a branch in relation to the urban space. In this context, university is taken as a specific urban space in evaluating the intermelted character of university legends and campus life. The fact that legend continues to exist today is considered in relation to the adaptation of traditional literary branches into the new spaces and needs of life.
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General Conclusions
(Palgrave Pivot, 2021-10-07) Zavagno, Luca
This chapter will sum up the nature and characteristics of the changes in urbanism in Byzantium show variations (in regional and sub-regional terms) which allow us to sketch different trajectories of development for the cities of the Byzantine empire. They should be pitted against each other to understand how different local needs produced different multifunctional real “urban” answers to the problems and challenges which presented themselves along with the ebbs and flows of the history of an Empire that would not die and indeed managed to navigate through streams of gold and rivers of blood until it fell (but not for the last time) with the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople.
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Kendimizden ve kentimizden uzaklaştırıyor bizi kent
(1998) Kaynar, Hakan
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The rise of the shopping mall in Turkey: the use and appeal of a mall in Ankara
(Elsevier, 2005-03) Erkip, F.
The shopping mall as the site of contemporary consumption has long been attracting the attention of various researchers analyzing socio-spatial dynamics in different cultures. It is the focus of this study of recent transformations in Turkish metropolises, due to its primary influence on urban life. As an initial attempt to understand the Turkish situation, a field survey was carried out in Bilkent Shopping Center, a newly built shopping mall in a high-income suburban area of the capital city, Ankara. Some long-lasting assumptions about Western consumption trends and shopping mall development were tested to provide clues for dynamics in a developing country. In addition to statistical analyses of data obtained from structured interviews, various observations were used to enrich the survey. Although shopping mall development seems to be a part of a global trend, there exist socio-cultural influences creating local patterns in the use of the mall. These patterns differ with user characteristics, such as gender, age and occupation, as well as the time of visit. This paper suggests that shopping mall development poses a number of policy issues for planning bodies and these issues need to be addressed with an awareness of the local context.
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Shadow theater moving from stage to screen: Series of commercials for Pepsi and whom?
(2006) Yeşil, N.
Does the transformation of context and function in Turkish shadow theater amount to a loss? If such a work of folklore accents divergence from the usual characters and setting, does it no longer belong to "us"? Delving into a series of five Pepsi commercials broadcasted on TV for a Ramadan promotion in 2005, this article shall seek an answer to such questions. Voicing Pepsi's slogan "under every cap", this series shall be considered as a product of secondary orality based on an assessment of how similar techniques, structure and characters seen in the shadow theater known as "Karagöz" are put to use. With a critical standpoint towards the identity of the folk group addressed by this series, the article shall thus shed light upon how the shadow theater is reproduced by means of the city and technology.
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Turgut uyar`ın huzursuzluğu
(2006) Caner, Fırat
Turgut Uyar’s earlier understanding of poetry goes through a sudden change with Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı [The Most Beautiful Arabia of the World]. In his earlier style, the influence of “Garip Poetry” can be detected, but in Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı, Uyar approaches poetry with a new concep, similar to those of the other İkinci Yeni [The Second New] poets’, in which meaning is pushed to the background and figures of speech are brough to the fore. Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı is a modern work of art. The basic motivation that leads Uyar to write this book is the emotional pressures of modernity on the individual. Here, the poet focuses on two problems: First comes the pressure on the individual caused by religious morality, traditional ethics, and the social institutions which enforce these concepts. Second is the shock experience and discontents caused by modern civilization, urbanization, and the life style in urban the setting. Adverse affects of these experiences on the individual is not only the main theme of book, but it also determines the construction its whole design, the formal characteristics of the poems, and the dynamics of the imagery. In Dünyanın En Güzel Arabistanı, verses are not logically continuous, the narrative lacks the commonly expected form of linearity, and the construction that makes the book a whole is rather fragmented. Although these poems are meant to be read as independent pieces, they are connected to one another and constitute a coherent whole, because they are constructed within the framework of a common universe of symbols or fictional characters. The narrative events taking place in the poems do not display a chronological linearity. The poet/author hides himself behind the narrator of the individual poems and leaves the reader alone with the narrator. He employs various techniques of dramatic writing and story telling, which are not all that common in Turkish poetry. He backgrounds the meaning and expects the reader to bring together the pieces of the fragmented narrative by using various ambiguous relations between the imagery of the individual poems. The aesthetic choice of Turgut Uyar in this book is not Apollonian, but Dionysian, to refer to Nietzsche’s well-know dichotomy, one that the poet himself conceptualizes as “clumsiness”, something that makes the reader feel a sense of incompleteness before the whole work.