Media Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey

• Main Author: Nas, Alparslan (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 Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnology-Europe.; Motion pictures-European influences.; European Culture.; European Cinema and TV.

"A fresh study that confirms the existence of multiple peripheries (and its others) in Turkish society and how dominant centrist media represented these differences in film and television discourse. The use of Mardin's center-periphery concept for the analyses of films, ads and cartoons is...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Locating the Cultural Other in Turkey in Turkey Through Center-periphery Dichotomy
• 2. The Cultural Other in Film Narratives: Gendered Perspectives
• 3. The Making of a Militarized Self and the Other in TV Series: A Reformulation of the Center?
• 4. New Cultural Others? Unveiling the Limits and Paradoxes
• 5. Towards a Conclusion: Imagining the Cultural Other.