Representations Of Social Classes In Arabesk Films

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REPRESENTATIONS OF SOCIAL CLASSES IN ARABESK FILMS



Avci, &Ouml / zg&uuml / r
M.S., Department of Political Science and Public Administration Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Necmi Erdogan


August 2004, 248 pages



This thesis is an attempt to analyze the narrative structure of arabesk films which were made in the 1970s and the 1980s. Based on the idea that it is the poor/rich dichotomy which is foregrounded as the primary paradigm in arabesk films, this study tries to show how socio-cultural hierarchies are encoded in these films and how their narrative structure motivates the audience to perceive the films from a class perspective. On the basis of a generic background regarding melodramatic texts as well as a historical background as regards how the Turkish melodramas developed in relation to the modernization process in Turkey, this thesis focuses on syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures of arabesk films and offers that these films are primarily, if not exclusively, nourished by and address to a class-based &lsquo / affect&rsquo / (hissiy&acirc / t).

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605219/index.pdf
Date	01 August 2004
Creators	Avci, Ozgur
Contributors	Erdogan, Necmi
Publisher	METU
Source Sets	Middle East Technical Univ.
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	M.S. Thesis
Format	text/pdf
Rights	To liberate the content for public access