Çınar, İlyas Deniz

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Çınar, İLyas Deniz
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Misafir Öğr. Gör.
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Denız.cınar@khas.edu.tr
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    Master Thesis
    Turco-Westerns: Aesthetic and Thematic Politics of a Transnational and Translocal Genre
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2023) Çınar, İlyas Deniz; Kuyucu, Elif Akçalı
    What can one interpret about life in the Turkish frontier, ethnic identity, and Turkey-U.S. relationships from Westerns made in Turkey? How did the cinematography and iconography of the Western genre translate into Turkey? How does a national cinema industry adapt an iconic film genre, and what transnational flows enabled the syncretization of the Western genre into the Turkish silver screen? Examining the history of cinema in Turkey with a focus on films produced between 1959 and 1975, when there was a noticeable Western genre film production in Turkey, I explore the Turkish Western subgenre in this period and catalog them under a new parameter: Turco-Westerns. With my coining of Turco-Westerns, I imply that these Westerns are not Turkish but rather Turkey-ish: carrying all the ethics, politics, and aesthetics that come from being related to Turkey as a land carrying various types of subjectivities. My thesis explores these questions, alongside the Turco-Western canon, by exploring the aesthetic and thematic politics of Düşman Yolları Kesti (Enemy Has Cut Off All the Roads; dir. Osman F. Seden, 1959), Çifte Tabancalı Damat (Dual-wielding Groom; dir. Nuri Ergün, 1967), and Aç Kurtlar (The Hungry Wolves; dir. Yılmaz Güney, 1969) as case studies. Through this study, I negotiate the political and aesthetic motives of the Turco-Westerns that translocalized the Western genre to Turkey. By approaching Turco-Westerns through the critical perspective of translocalization, I am highlighting and negotiating how Turkish filmmakers integrated the elements of the Wild West into Asia Minor (also known as Anatolia) which formed the setting of their movies or rendered the filmic conventions of the Western and myths of the Wild West with characters and cultural references about Turkey.
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    Large-Scale Collaborative Research Projects in Theatre and Performance Studies: Resources, Politics, and Ethics in the Margins of Europe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
    (The University of Kansas, Department of Theatre and Dance, 2021-09) Altinay, Rüstem Ertuğ; Çınar, İlyas Deniz; Karabekir, Jale; Tosun, Gamze; Yıldırım, Şeyda Nur
    Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas is a research project funded by the European Research Council’s Starting Grants program. Building on the initial insights of the project, the authors study collaboration as a performative process. They analyze the promises and risks involved in large-scale collaborative research projects and how they unfold in the context of Turkish academia and the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors examine how they manage their responsibilities to fellow members of their research team, to other members of Turkish academia, to the minoritarian communities they work with, and to the broader public who funds their research. Finally, they discuss how they work toward collective care and empowerment while negotiating the demands of globalized neoliberal academia as well as the oppressive sociopolitical environment in Turkey and explore the limits of their scholarly and ethical endeavors.