Atatürk on screen : documentary film and the making of a leader / Enis Dinç.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinç, Enis, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938.

Atatürk, Kemal.

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938.

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938--In mass media.

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938--Public opinion.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Turkey--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Turkey--History--20th century.

Mass media and public opinion--Turkey--History--20th century.

Mass media and public opinion.

History.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Public opinion.

Turkey--Politics and government--1918-1960.

Turkey.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his public image gradually turned him into a superhuman figure in the eyes of many. Film played a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of this image and helped Atatürk to advance his project of building a new "imagined community" of the Turkish nation. But despite the impact of film and film-making on the political and cultural life of Early Republican Turkey, there is almost no research that has analysed this footage. Atatürk on Screen uncovers various film archives to reveal the significant, albeit paradoxical, role of film during this period. Enis Dinç shows that while film-making was crucial for the creation of Atatürk's public image and the presentation of Turkey's new modern image to the world, it also posed risks as it could be re-used, re-edited and re-framed for the purposes of counter-propaganda. The main analysis in the book is of the film footage itself, including rare contemporary cinematic sources which have never received comprehensive analysis before. The book also makes use of other primary sources such as letters, memoirs, newspapers, reports, newsletters and production files, providing readers with a multi-layered account of the period.

Contents:

1 Early cinema in the Ottoman Empire p. 15

Public cinema in the Ottoman Empire p. 20

Wartime cinema p. 28

2 Filming the struggle for independence (1919-23) p. 49

Domestic film producers p. 50

Foreign film producers p. 64

Orphan films p. 65

Mustafa Kemal at the cinema p. 75

3 Performing modernity: The film of Mustafa Kemal Atatüurk Forest Farm p. 87

The making of Mustafa Kemal's film p. 89

Preliminary Speeches (Scene I) p. 90

The Fountain (Scene II) p. 98

The Garden (Scene III) p. 103

The Cows (Scene IV) p. 104

The Poultry (Scene V) p. 105

The Sheep (Scene VI) p. 106

The Tractors (Scene VII) p. 107

The Machine Shop (Scene VIII) p. 108

Woman, Lovely Woman (Scene IX) p. 109

The fortunes of the film p. 111

4 How to impress an American: The power of the motion picture p. 133

Who was Julien Bryan? p. 135

Arrival p. 136

Bryan meets Atatürk p. 138

The many afterlives of Bryan's footage p. 144

5 Father of all Turks: How The March of Time newsreel series represented Atatürk p. 159

Newsreel and The March of Time p. 160

Father of all Turks p. 161

Intertitle 1 p. 163

Intertitle 2 p. 165

Intertitle 3 p. 166

Intertitle 4 p. 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 19, 2020).

ISBN:

9780755602056

0755602056

9780755602049

0755602048

9780755602032

075560203X

Publisher Number:

40030309564

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