From Becoming-Animal To Becoming-Machine: King Kong Cover Image

Hayvan-Oluş’tan Makine-Oluş’a King Kong
From Becoming-Animal To Becoming-Machine: King Kong

Author(s): Süleyman Duyar
Subject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: Deleuze ve Guattari; Becoming-Animal; King Kong; Animals in Film;

Summary/Abstract: King Kong, one of the most recognizable characters that Hollywood cinema has produced up to now, is also a figure identified with mass culture and cinema. This study aims to subject Deleuzian reading The movie 'King Kong Skull Island' dated 2017. Understanding the animal concept of Deleuze and Guattari is necessary, in order to analyze the relation of cinematic images to reality, to determine the boundaries of what the animal phenomenon is and to re-examine the static ideas and habits that we have accepted up to now.While thinking as the source of animal-dynamics, this study is seeking answers to some questions with the figure of King Kong: Where do we stand when looking at a cinematic animal? Where does our human being stand in physically and spatially its full sense? Where are the animals today in terms of our control over them? What do we become when we try to look at animals with our own cultural frameworks? Why are we looking at animals and what do we hope to see in them? The answers on these questions will be discussed in accordance with the methodological frame of the article, through Deleuze Guattari's ideas and considering the age-specific and socio-economic factors that make up King Kong.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 94-110
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Turkish