Money Religion and Symbolic Exchange in Winter Sleep
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Date
2017
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Berghahn Journals
Abstract
Winter Sleep is the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan a Turkish director and screenwriter who has received international acclaim. For the purpose of social and cultural analysis this article critically focuses on the film's key themes and maneuvers that have diagnostic value from a social theoretical viewpoint. These themes are religion the relationship between religion and capitalism and symbolic exchange. Organized around these topics the article examines the religion-capitalism-symbolic exchange nexus by analyzing the motifs of formation intervention and intelligibility as these themes arise. This site of intersection is the conceptual pivot around which the article configures itself. It explores Winter Sleep based on what the film shows and says on screen how its thought processes emerge and at what points this thought supports or conflicts with dominant societal opinions.
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Capitalism, Debt, Guilt, Mediocrity, Money, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Religion, Symbolic exchange
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Q1
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8
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1
Start Page
94
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108