| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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International library of the moving image ; 47 |
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International library of the moving image ; 47.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The origin of imagines : unravelling Cocoon -- Our town : homesickness in The small town and Clouds of May -- Distant : a winter's tale -- Climates and problem of nihilism : the missing season -- Three monkeys and the oblivion of the spectral fourth -- Once upon a time in Anatolia : Ante rem, revenge, hinterland and detection -- Winter sleep : disappearance as social topology -- Conclusion : Ceylan's aesthetic politics |
| Summary |
"Filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from alter festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of twenty-first-century cinema. In an age where Turkey's modernization has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan's films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of 'nostalgia' understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan's work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow and uncompromising in their pessimistic outlook. Moving on from the tendency to situate Ceylan's oeuvre exclusively within the canon of 'New Turkish Cinema', one of this book's major achievements is also to assess the influence of classic European thought, literature and film and how such a notably minimal--and in many ways nationally specific--approach translates to an increasingly transnational context for film"--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge, 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge, 1959- fast |
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Ceylan, Nuri Bilge, 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation. nli |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Turkey
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Performing Arts.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Turkey.
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Turkey.
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Films, cinema.
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Film history, theory & criticism.
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Individual film directors, film-makers.
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Social & cultural history.
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Performing Arts.
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gilloch, Graeme, author
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Hammond, Craig A., author
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| ISBN |
9781786733344 |
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178673334X |
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