Toros Yayla Köylerinde Sinema Deneyimleri: Modernlik, Şehir, Sinema Ve Seyirci İlişkilerine Dair Bir Soruşturma
Experiences of Cinema in Taurus Highland Villages: A Query on the Relations of Modernity, City, Cinema, and Audiences

Summary/Abstract: Drawing apart from the traditional methods of mainstream cinema history research and based on the New Cinema History approach, this research focuses on the cinema experiences of Taurus highland villagers located at an altitude of approximately 1.500 meters and at a distance of about 170 km to Adana and about 70 km to Mersin from 1960 to 1980. The main objective is to explore the cinematic experiences of the villagers of Taurus highlands through travelling cinema and/or cinema halls, and to identify and analyze the cultural changes/transformations that took place through cinema. In this context, some research questions can be listed as follows: (1) In which places and under what occasions did the film screenings take place in Taurus highland villages between 1960 and 1980? (2) Who had participated to the screenings and what were the moviegoing experiences of these participants? (3) What were the reflections of the moviegoing experiences in the daily life of highland villagers? (4) What were the contributions of cinema to cultural transformation in these villages? If there were any, how can we define these transformations? In order to carry out this study, we identified the highland villages to research from the works of writer and scriptwriter Osman Şahin.

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