Dönüştürücü, Eleştirel ve Politik Bir Sinemanın İmkânı: Guy Ernest Debord Sineması
The Possibility of a Transforming, Critical and Political Cinema: Guy Ernest Debord’s Cinema

Summary/Abstract: Is it possible to make a critical, political and transformative cinema that is free from traditional principles of narrative and cinematography? Is it possible to make cinema a political and critical form of action? The possibility of such a cinema is revealed in Guy Ernest Debord's critique of spectacle and the method of detournement. Debord, who is both a theorist and a filmmaker, points to the method of detournement as a political and artistic form of action in the construction of his cinema. According to him, the way out of the spiral of domination that the spectacle spreads through images is possible through political intervention in the artistic field. The detournement method is a powerful tool for such an intervention. Debord states that all reality is reduced to images as an illusion and turned into a spectacle. According to him, mass media and especially cinema are tools that serve the spectacle by reproducing false reality. From this point of view, this study focuses on Guy Ernest Debord's concept and criticism of spectacle as expressed in his theory and his films, each of which is a manifesto in itself. This study focuses on Guy Ernest Debord's life, criticism and cinema based on his theory of the spectacle. The study presents a critical analysis of the spectacle by referring to Debord's films and questions whether the detournement method makes it possible to make a critical, political and transformative cinema.

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