The Spectacle of Politics and Religion in the Contemporary Turkish Cinema

• Main Author: Thwaites Diken, Ebru (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Religion and sociology.; Religion and politics.; Screen Studies.; Religion and Society.; Politics and Religion.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema. It investigates their common origin-the spectacle, which each field views as an instrument of governmentality. The book analyses six recent internationally known Turkish films. Thw...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Cinema, Politics and Religion
• 2. The Messenger (Ulak)
• 3. A Man's Fear of God (Takva)
• 4. Let's Sin! (İtirazım Var)
• 5. Sixty-One Days (İftarlık Gazoz)
• 6. The Imam (The İmam)
• 7. The Shadowless (Gölgesizler)
• 8. Conclusion.