The cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan : the global vision of a Turkish filmmaker / Bülent Diken, Graeme Gilloch, Craig Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diken, Bülent, author.

Gilloch, Graeme, author.

Hammond, Craig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Turkey.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Ceylan, Nuri Bilge, 1959---Criticism and interpretation.

Ceylan, Nuri Bilge.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of 21st century cinema. In an age where Turkey's modernisation has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan's films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of 'nostalgia' understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan's work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow and uncompromising in their pessimistic outlook. Moving on from the tendency to situate Ceylan's oeuvre exclusively within the canon of 'New Turkish Cinema', one of this book's major achievements is also to assess the influence of classic European thought, literature and film and how such a notably minimal - and in many ways nationally-specific - approach translates to an increasingly transnational context for film. This will prove an important book for film students and scholars, and those interested in Turkish visual culture.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Content

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Origin of Imagines: Unravelling Cocoon

Origins

Perhaps

Sorrow (Trauer)

Imagines

Play (Spiel)

2 Our Town: Homesickness in The Small Town and Clouds of May

A Charmed Circle

Sadness amidst Snow

Gathering Clouds

Muzaffer with a Movie Camera

Cinematic Hide- and- seek

3 Distant : A Winter's Tale

Departures

Time and Motion

Photography and Film

Istanbul Redeemed

4 Climates and the Problem of Nihilism: the Missing Season

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Spring

5 Three Monkeys and the Oblivion of the Spectral Fourth

Non- Place: Home as Shipwreck

Hear No Evil and the Spectre of Oblivion

The Shock of Remembrance

6 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: Ante Rem , Revenge, Hinterland and Detection

Wilderness: Unmasking the Sublime

Ressentiment and Revenge: the Woman who Predicted her own Death

Kenan,Cemal, Nusret… and Anatolia

7 Winter Sleep : Disappearance as Social Topology

Money,Debt and Symbolic Exchange

Vanity and Religion

Not Resisting Evil

Burning Money

Fooling About

Conclusion: Ceylan's Aesthetic Politics

Eidetic Kalospectrality

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781786733344

178673334X