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Item Open Access A cryptonymy of cinema : a new psychoanalytical approach to the reading of films(Bilkent University, 2007) Karaduman, ArzuThis thesis brings a new psychoanalytical approach to cinema studies bycontributing the theory of cryptonymy, which was put forward by thepsychoanalysts Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok. After an elucidation ofthe theory of the crypt and clarification of the relationship between cryting andcinema writ large, Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope is presented as an illustrationof the crypt in film theory. The core of the project is composed of threeparadigms for crypting in the analysis of motion pictures: loss, a-topoi, andcipher. Respectively, Pal Sletaune’s film Naboer, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solarisand Stalker, and lastly Ken McMullen’s Ghost Dance are analyzed with thetheory of the crypt. It is also clearly pointed out that one cannot make ananalysis of the crypt without making a crypt of an analysis.Item Open Access Encounter, mimesis, play: theatricality in spatial arts(Bilkent University, 1999) Sarıkartal, ÇetinOn the basis of the experience of four works from Turkey, this study attempts to reveal that actual experience of spatial arts (traditionally called visual arts) is also theatrical. During the study, it is observed that the fundamental factor behind the experience of spatial artworks is an uncanny encounter with them in a specific space- time. The study further argues that the enactment of the audience in the space-time of the work involves an intermingling of pre-rational and rational modes of mimesis and play. In this context, a theoretical study can be based on sensuous bodily affection by the works, following the traces of practical logic, which is effective during such experience.Item Open Access A study of popular culture and fandom : the case of Japanese manga(Bilkent University, 2010) Büyüm, BestemThis thesis is an attempt to explore the practices, influence and reception of manga and anime as a global product of Japanese Popular culture as it concentrates on the emergence of manga as a popular culture product, how it became this wide spread in relation with the changing dynamics of internet and media relationship, and how it is perceived considering the relationship between Japan and West in a historical context.