ReFocus : the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan / edited by Gönül Dönmez-Colin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dönmez-Colin, Gönül, editor.

Series:

ReFocus: the international directors series.

ReFocus: The International Directors Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ceylan, Nuri Bilge.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 19 B/W illustrations 19 b&w images

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge CeylanProvides thematical analysis of Ceylan's transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity of the text creating and maintaining a dialogue between chapters similar to the manner Ceylan's films maintain dialogue with each otherLocates Ceylan's cinema within the context of the past and present social, cultural and political climate of Turkey with unprecedented political and sociological readings of specific filmsOffers textual reading of Ceylan's films from the point of view of feminist film theoryPlaces Ceylan's oeuvre within the context of global cinema as a transnational author of realist cinema and slow cinemaReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan brings together a cohort of expert scholars to analyse the films of Turkey's most renowned filmmaker. His self-reflexive films inspired by local incidents have reached global dimensions, and won awards at prestigious films festivals, including the Grand Prix, Best Director and Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.This collection highlights Ceylan's aesthetics, auteurism and unique position within the film industry of Turkey and contemporary global cinema while focusing on his transnational style of filmmaking that also favours intertextual exchanges between his films, but also with other landmark works, merging photography, painting, and literature.

Contents:

Intro

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Portrait of the Provincial Artist as an Urban Intellectual

2. Vanishing Image of History: Uzak/Distant (2002)

3. Portraits and Landscape: İklimler/Climates (2006)

4. Aesthetic Silences and the Political Bind: Üç Maymun/Three Monkeys (2008)

5. The Aesthetics of Space and Absence: Üç Maymun/Three Monkeys (2008) and Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

6. Transnational Indistinctions: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Kış Uykusu/Winter Sleep (2014)

7. The Politics of Dialogue and Ethics of Engagement: Kış Uykusu/Winter Sleep (2014)

8. Staying in the Primary Home, Relationships, Desires to Go and Roots: Kış Uykusu/Winter Sleep (2014) and Ahlat Ağacı/The Wild Pear Tree (2018)

9. Of Fathers, Sons and 'Solitary, Misshapen' Trees: Ahlat Ağacı/The Wild Pear Tree (2018)

10. 'Gender Trouble' and the Crises of Masculinities in the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

11. Auteurism, Recognition and Reception: Ceylan as a Global Auteur

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-3995-0299-9