Kostüme Avantür Türk Sinemasında Milliyetçilik İnşasında Yükselen Erotizm: Tarkan Film Serisi

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Cinema, an ideological tool, creates its narrative structure by being influenced by the political and social structure of the period.Turkish cinema is a country cinema where film production has been directly influenced by the dominant ideology and social climate of the period since the very beginning.This study reveals how Turkey, which experienced instability in the national and international communities in the 1970s, brought nationalism and Turkish national identity to the forefront through the Tarkan films, a costume adventure film series.It has been found that nationalism and national identity discourses were nourished by the cinema narrative of the period during the production of films, and eroticism was used intensively.How nationalist discourse is produced and the business as a technical element within the eroticism and sexuality series are revealed through critical narrative analysis.Through film analyses, it has been determined that the nationalist discourse in the series is conveyed through dialogues praising the Turkish race, the intensive use of visual and verbal codes belonging to Turkish culture, and the othering of the enemy belonging to a different race or country through both discourse and visual representations.It has been observed that eroticism was used intensively in the construction of nationalist discourse, in line with the audience habits of the period.In all 5 films of the series, eroticism was represented through the female body.Erotic representation was constructed through women, especially femme fatale characters belonging to the enemy race.The point where eroticism and nationalism intersect in the films is the glorification of the Turkish race through Tarkan's battlefield victories as well as the masculinity of Tarkan, the leading character, through his "victories" over enemy women.Throughout the series, Tarkan defeats the enemy other, the commander/king, with his sword and conquers the enemy sexually by having intercourse with the commander/king's daughter or wife. Structured Abstract:Since the first day of its emergence, mass media have been feeding on the social and ideological facts of the period and producing various products.From newspapers to radio, from television to cinema, many mass media are supported by the dominant ideology and social dynamics of the period.The fundamental question posed regarding mass media is how the media will affect the attitudes and growth it will provide.Another important issue that needs to be considered along with the emergence of various views and theories on this question is to show what form mass media are in.Content can be produced to legitimize the ruling ideology of cinema, which has a strong structure in directing individuals and masses within the mass media.In this respect, it undertakes the task of being the ideological apparatus of the state.While Turkish cinema fulfills its function of entertaining and educating individuals and the masses, it is also used as an ideological tool by the governments of the period as a propaganda tool.For example, with the newly founded