Atat rk on Screen e-bog
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Mustafa Kemal Atat rk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his public image gradually turned him into a superhuman figure in the eyes of many. Film played a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of this image and helped Atat rk to advance his project of bui...
E-bog
265,81 DKK
Forlag
I.B. Tauris
Udgivet
16 april 2020
Længde
256 sider
Genrer
APFR
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780755602049
Mustafa Kemal Atat rk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his public image gradually turned him into a superhuman figure in the eyes of many. Film played a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of this image and helped Atat rk to advance his project of building a new imagined community of the Turkish nation. But despite the impact of film and film-making on the political and cultural life of Early Republican Turkey, there is almost no research that has analysed this footage. Atat rk on Screen uncovers various film archives to reveal the significant, albeit paradoxical, role of film during this period. Enis Din shows that while film-making was crucial for the creation of Atat rk's public image and the presentation of Turkey's new modern image to the world, it also posed risks as it could be re-used, re-edited and re-framed for the purposes of counter-propaganda. The main analysis in the book is of the film footage itself, including rare contemporary cinematic sources which have never received comprehensive analysis before. The book also makes use of other primary sources such as letters, memoirs, newspapers, reports, newsletters and production files, providing readers with a multi-layered account of the period.