Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü Koleksiyonu

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Forum: Visualizing History Visualizing Nation
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Spence, Louıse
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Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism
(Sage Publications, 2021) Diken, Bülent
I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in terms of a monstrous transgression of the law. But since the monster is grounded in its very formlessness, it cannot be demonstrated. However, one can always try to de-monstrate it through disagreements. In doing this, I deal with despotism not as a solipsistic undertaking but as part of a constellation that always already contains two other elements: economy and voluntary servitude. I give three different – ancient, early modern and late modern – accounts of this nexus, demonstrating how despotism continuously takes on new appearances. I conclude, in a counter-classical prism, how the classical nexus has evolved in modernity while the focus gradually shifted towards another triangulation: neo-despotism, use and dissent.
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Pushing the boundaries of the historical documentary: Su Friedrich's 1984 The Ties That Bind
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Spence, Louıse; Cengiz, Esin Paça
This article argues that Su Friedrich's 1984 film The Ties That Bind employs what were at the time atypical forms and techniques to push the limits of the traditional historical documentary. Its aesthetic experimentation helps to redefine the idea of historical representation in film and does so mainly by treating evidence as both partial (in both senses of the word) and contingent offering a radical challenge to normative history and destabilizing the notion of history as authority. Unlike conventional documentaries the film marks its own limitations: its inability to provide stable answers or eternal certainties. Questioning her mother's spoken memories and commenting on them Friedrich forces a rupture in the 'evidence' of history and establishes a place in which to 'speak' herself. By including the past that her mother is talking about on the sound track as well as the present on the image track (such as images of her mother's life in the early 1980s images of intertitles etched into the film emulsion revealing the questions Friedrich asked her mother and her reactions to the things her mother said as well as images of the filmmaker's visits to historical sites) Friedrich brings the present into the past and demonstrates how history is to quote Walter Benjamin 'time filled with the presence of the now'.
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The talking witness documentary: remembrance and the politics of truth
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013) Spence, Louıse; Avci, Asli Kotaman
This article argues that the conventional talking witness documentary by relying on memory of experience as evidence employs an inherently conservative politics of truth. Using a recent Kurdish video 5 No.lu Cezaevi/Prison No. 5 (Cayan Demirel 2009) as a case study it considers the opportunities and limitations of the talking witness form as well as its appeals. The essay pays special attention to the documentary's use of mimetic' affective engagement to break into the moral and conceptual space of trauma and the harrowing experiences of men and women who were incarcerated in the notorious Diyarbakr prison in eastern Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d'etat thus endeavoring to at once fix and disseminate memories of a violent past that run counter to state-authored versions of that history.

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