Overview
- First comprehensive study of the 1980 coup through films and television serials over a thirty-year period
- One of few studies in English on Turkey’s popular culture
- Examines construction of the military coup of 1980 in cinema and on television as a way of exploring cultural change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by examining feature films and television serials produced between 1980 and 2010 about the 1980 coup. Envisioned as an interdisciplinary study in cultural studies rather than a disciplinary work on cinema, the book advocates for an understanding of popular culture in discerning emerging narratives of nationhood. Through feature films and television serials directly dealing with the coup of 1980, the book exposes tropes and discursive continuities such as “childhood” and “the child”. It argues that these conventional tropes enable popular debates on the modern nation’s history and its myths of identity.
Reviews
“In Turkey, coups play a pivotal role in a power struggle for the nation's soul. In this sophisticated, articulate and thought-provoking book, Başcı analyzes how Turkish films about the 1980 coup have reimagined national history and identity, healing the repressed trauma of the coup period, while linking it to the dark side of Turkey's post-coup transformation into a ‘new’ society.” (Jenny White, Professor, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, Sweden)
“An exhaustively researched, breath-catchingly timely look at how Turkish cinema has personalized and interpreted national trauma.” (Bob Mondello, NPR)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Pelin Başcı is Associate Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at Portland State University, USA, where she teaches courses on popular culture, cinema, and literature of Turkey. A recipient of various awards including a Fulbright scholarship for doctoral work, Başcı received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, with additional doctoral coursework at Ankara University, Turkey. She is author of numerous cultural studies articles and reviews on women and gender in Turkey, the late-Ottoman popular press and advertising for women, the canon of Turkish literature, and coup films as counter-narratives. Her research and teaching interests cover modern Turkish literature and popular culture, Turkish cinema, and women and gender in Turkey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory
Book Subtitle: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup
Authors: Pelin Başcı
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59722-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59721-8Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86686-4Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59722-5Published: 24 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Culture, European Cinema and TV, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Policy and Politics, Popular Culture , Middle Eastern Culture