South Asian Cinema and Culture

Bu çalışma, yirmi üçüncü James Bond filmi olan Skyfall’un (2012) özellikle İstanbul’da geçen açılış sekansı üzerinden “Doğu”nun nasıl temsil edildiğini, Edward Said’in Oryantalizm (Şarkiyatçılık) kavramsallaştırması çerçevesinde incelemektedir. Araştırma, Türkiye’nin modernleşme ve demokratikleşme deneyimine rağmen Ho…

This chapter examines the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in inclusive education, highlighting its potential to enhance accessibility, equity, and learner diversity. As part of digital transformation, AI supports students with disabilities, marginalized groups, and diverse socio-economic backgrounds through perso…

This article examines how Turkish remakes of British television dramas deconstruct, reformulate, and (re)construct national, non-national, and transnational imaginaries, particularly in relation to their potential resonance among English-speaking audiences amid the limited export success of Turkish dramas in Western E…

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This study examines the representation of global crises in war-correspondence cinema through postcolonial theory, cultural sociology, and media studies. Drawing on Spivak's concept of “subalternity” and Maggio's work on discursive reception, it analyzes systematic silencing mechanisms in cross-cultural visual encounte…

The aesthetic and narrative integrity of a cinematic work is shaped by the director's conscious combination of cinematographic elements. Cinematography is more than just a visual tool; it is a fundamental building block that constructs the narrative's world of meaning. Technical components such as camera angles, light…

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In line with the neoliberal trends in global politics, home states started showing more interest in harnessing their diasporas for economic, political and cultural benefits. For illiberal home states, diaspora communities also have emerged as strategic assets with which they project extraterritorial power, manage thei…

This chapter examines how AI-powered recommendation algorithms on streaming platforms have become the primary infrastructure for accessing film cultures worldwide, analyzing the implications for the distribution of cultural power in cinema. It introduces an Algorithmic Cinema Framework built around three dynamics: alg…

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This article investigates how Turkish cinema transformed under neoliberal restructuring following the 1980 military coup, proposing “Neoliberal Realism” as a new conceptual framework to describe the cinematic narratives of the 1980s. While Turkish cinema from 1960 to 1980 was shaped by collective struggles and social…

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