Displacement does not only have an effect on groups' and individuals' ways of relating to their identity and their past but the knowledge and experience of it also has an impact on its representation. Looking at films that represent the experience of displacement in relation to Turkey's minorities,Aesthetics of Displacementargues that there is a particular aesthetic continuity among the otherwise unrelated films. Ozlem Koksal focuses on films that bring taboo issues concerning the repression of minorities into visibility, arguing that the changing political and social conditions determine not only the types of stories told but also the ways in which these stories are told.
Focusing on aesthetic and narrative continuities, the films discussed includeArarat,Waiting for the CloudsandOnce Upon a Time in Anatoliaamong others. Each film is examined in light of major historical event(s) and their context (political and social) as well as the impact these events had on the construction of both minority and Turkish identity.
?zlem K?ksalis Lecturer in Film Television and Moving Image at the University of Westminster, UK.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Memory, Identity: The Turkish Context
- Memory and Cinema
- Turkey: Remembering and Forgetting
- The Military Coup and the Post-1980s
- Cinema in Turkey: A Brief Overview
Chapter 3: Recurring Themes and Motifs:
- Politics of Language
- Silence
- Space/Spatial Relations
- Haunting
- Epistolarity
Chapter 4: Representing Minorities:
- The Context and the Overview of the Films
- Close-up:Politiki Kouzina/A Touch of Spice
- Close-up:Bulutlari Beklerken/Waiting for the Clouds
Chapter 5: Representing the Unrepresentable:Araratand the Armenian Genocide
- Historical Overview: 1915 and its Aftermath
- Overview of Films
- Close-up:Ararat
- Layers of Reception: BeyondArarat
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