Popüleri Çevreleyen “Arzu”: 1970’li Yıllar Türkiye’sinde Arzu Siyasetinin Ana Akım Sinemaya Yansımaları Bağlamında Şerif Gören Sinemasında Arabesk
When “The Desire” Surrounds the Popular: The Politics of Desire in the 1970’s Mainstream Turkish Cinema and Şerif Gören’s Arabesque Films

Summary/Abstract: In the context of Turkey’s contemporary political history, the 1970s constitutes a unique example. It is an era in which “the belief in other possibilities” manifested itself in all areas of life; the “flows of desire” belonging to different social layers integrated with the mass action; the politics expanded into the daily life and popular culture. This productive “politics of desire” also showed itself in the 1970s’ Turkish cinema in terms of the reflections of the political images on not only political films but also the mainstream films. This sets a rare and important example where the popular culture has been surrounded and transformed by the politics of desire. In this context, Şerif Gören’s films that combine arabesque genre with leftist political cinema can be regarded as “rhizomatic” collaboration of the two contradictory ways of the expression of the desire. This study examines Gören’s four arabesque films in terms of their integration with the politics and the desire through the “lines of flight” in their imagery of social structure and relations.

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