İletişim ve Tasarımı Bölümü / Department of Communication and Design

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    Realism as a Tool to Develop Authenticity: Orientalism in Mustang
    (Gümüşhane Üni̇versi̇tesi̇, 2020) KOÇER, ZEYNEP
    This study analyzes Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s 2015 film Mustang in terms of the ways in which the film reconstructs orientalist imagery with its narrative, camerawork and editing. Mustang was well received in the western mainstream media. It was praised for being a feminist film with a female point of view that draws attention to the oppression of women in Turkey. Yet, it’s reception was quite different in Turkey. This study explores film’s reception in the western media, the rhetoric of Ergüven on the realism aspect of the film and demonstrates the similarities between Ergüven’s compositions and 19th century Orientalist paintings that depict the image of the odalisque. Its methodology is textual and discourse analysis. The theoretical framework regarding Orientalism is based on Edward Said’s canonic work, Orientalism and Linda Nochlin’s influential essay, The Imaginary Orient.
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    Violence, Wars, and the Possibility of Ethical Life in an Apocalypse: A Kantian Reading of The Walking Dead
    (De Gruyter, 2021) SAKIZLI, SELDA SALMAN
    The Walking Dead is a popular TV series depicting a catastrophic and violent world. After a pandemic that turns humans into zombies, we witness the collapse of civilization with all its institutions, the depletion of the resources, and the struggle to build a new world in the middle of the wars between surviving groups. It illustrates a world of literal and metaphorical homo homini lupus. Some people choose sheer survival, and others try to build a moral, civil world. In this article, I propose a reading of this series from a Kantian perspective by employing his interrelated ideas on history, ethics, and politics. I claim that The Walking Dead represents the state of nature and the violence it contains, and illustrates the course of history toward a civil society as defined by Kant.