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ReFocus: The International Directors Series

ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Edited by Gönül Dönmez-Colin

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Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

  • Provides thematical analysis of Ceylan’s transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity of the text creating and maintaining a dialogue between chapters similar to the manner Ceylan’s films maintain dialogue with each other
  • Locates Ceylan’s cinema within the context of the past and present social, cultural and political climate of Turkey with unprecedented political and sociological readings of specific films
  • Offers textual reading of Ceylan’s films from the point of view of feminist film theory
  • Places Ceylan’s oeuvre within the context of global cinema as a transnational author of realist cinema and slow cinema

ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan brings together a cohort of expert scholars to analyse the films of Turkey’s most renowned filmmaker. His self-reflexive films inspired by local incidents have reached global dimensions, and won awards at prestigious films festivals, including the Grand Prix, Best Director and Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.
This collection highlights Ceylan’s aesthetics, auteurism and unique position within the film industry of Turkey and contemporary global cinema while focusing on his transnational style of filmmaking that also favours intertextual exchanges between his films, but also with other landmark works, merging photography, painting, and literature.

Reviews

This rigorous and passionate collection bestows on Turkish maverick Nuri Bilge Ceylan the scholarly attention he deserves. From his early shorts to his mature features, Ceylan has offered a unique and penetrating vision of humanity’s existential struggles. His aesthetic and philosophical motifs are in dialogue with the likes of Ozu, Tarkovsky, Kiarostami, Martel and Antonioni, placing him among the greatest world-cinema auteurs of all time. By unveiling Ceylan’s local roots, global connections and transmedial relations, this book makes a definitive contribution to film history and theory.
An intriguing collection of essays on the work of the celebrated Turkish film director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A rewarding read for anyone interested in world cinema, it succeeds in placing Ceylan within his cultural context and analysing his wider significance within Film Studies.
Offers essential commentary on aspects of local culture and politics and on the resonance of certain words, names, characters, music, and locales to which a non-Turkish critic would probably be oblivious.
Table of contents

List of figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Gönül Dönmez-Colin

Chapter 1. Portrait of the Provincial Artist as an Urban Intellectual - Gönül Dönmez-Colin

Chapter 2. Vanishing Image of History: Uzak/Distant (2002) - Mahmut Mutman

Chapter 3. Portraits and Landscape: İklimler/Climates (2006) - Cecília Mello

Chapter 4. Aesthetic Silences and the Political Bind: Üç Maymun/Three Monkeys (2008) - Vuslat D Katsanis

Chapter 5. The Aesthetics of Space and Absence: Üç Maymun/Three Monkeys (2008) and Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) - Adam Ochonicky

Chapter 6. Transnational Indistinctions: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Kış Uykusu/Winter Sleep (2014) - Ebru Thwaites Diken

Chapter 7. The Politics of Dialogue and Ethics of Engagement: Kış Uykusu/Winter Sleep (2014) - Emre Çağlayan

Chapter 8. Staying in the Primary Home, Relationships, Desires to Go and Roots: Kış Uykusu/Winter Sleep (2014) and Ahlat Ağacı/The Wild Pear Tree (2018) - Hasan Akbulut

Chapter 9. Of Fathers, Sons and ‘Solitary, Misshapen’ Trees: Ahlat Ağacı/The Wild Pear Tree (2018) - Coşkun Liktor

Chapter 10. ‘Gender Trouble’ and the Crises of Masculinities in the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Gönül Dönmez-Colin

Chapter 11. Auteurism, Recognition and Reception: Ceylan as a Global Auteur - Özgür Yaren

About the author

Gönül Dönmez-Colin

Gönül Dönmez-Colin is an independent film scholar specialising in the cinemas of Iran, Turkey and Central Asia. She has written numerous books including Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and As Image-makers (2019), The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema (2014), Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging (2008) and Women, Islam and Cinema (2004).

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