Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen

By Ozlem Koksal

Book Overview

This open access book focuses on aesthetic and narrative continuities of films, including Ararat, Waiting for the Clouds and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, examining them in light of major historical event(s) and their context (political and social) as well as the impact these events had on the construction of both minority and Turkish identity.

Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey's minorities, Aesthetics of Displacement argues that there is a particular aesthetic continuity among the otherwise unrelated films. Ozlem Koksal focuses on films that bring taboo issues concerning the repression of minorities into visibility, arguing that the changing political and social conditions determine not only the types of stories told but also the ways in which these stories are told.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501320181
• ISBN13: 9781501320187
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"