Browsing by Author "Kahraman, Elif"

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    Master Thesis
    Arm-wrestling a super power: American representations in Turkish comedies
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Akser, Ali Murat; Akser, Murat
    The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the cinematic representations of American characters in Turkish comedy films. It claims that through comedy films Turkish society expresses its feelings and thoughts about Americans. This study suggests that Turkish comedies that represent American characters are not only aimed at providing amusement to Turkish audiences but also express feelings on changing the power relations of the real world. While these comedies turn the power relations upside down, they make Turkish characters superior because of the fact that American representations just include the American military and CIA, which are regarded as powerful institutions. Beating these institutions provides superiority to the Turkish side in representations. From this point of view, this study includes the changing relations between Orientalism and Occidentalism via these films.For the study, five films have been chosen (Five Masqueraders " Iraq, Americans at Black Sea " 2, European, Ottoman Republic and Super Spy K9) to show American representations that are related with the American military and CIA. It explores the three findings of physical, behavioral and linguistic representations of the American characters. This study is important in that it unites American Studies and Film Studies and it also the first that examines American representations in contemporary Turkish comedy films. The main aim of this study is to reveal the hidden thoughts and feelings about Americans in general from the perspective of Turkish comedies.
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    Let's make it American: American remakes of the British films
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Akser, Ali Murat; Akser, Murat
    The purpose of this thesis is to analyze American remake versions of the original British films taking narrative as a basis. it claims that the American remakes put America forward as a cultural product for sale and makes the British narrative Americanized. For the study six films have been chosen for analysis: Alfie (1966 dir. Lewis Gilbert) Alfie (2004 dir. Charles Shyer) Bedazzled (1967 dir. Stanley Donen) Bedazzled (2000 dir. Harold Ramis) The Ladykillers (1955 dir. Alexander Mackendrick) The Ladykillers (2004 dir. Ethan and Joel Coen). This study explores the narrative elements of the American remakes by comparing the remakes with their originals. These narrative elements are setting characters intertextuality and turning points and transformations as well as Americanization. -- Abstract'tan.