Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,

In 2009, the Turkish government started the “Kurdish Initiative”, a comprehensive policymaking process, in an attempt to improve the democratic standards and civil rights of the Kurdish population. Even though the initiative ended in 2015, it made it possible for a significant number of independent...

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Main Authors: Zeynep Koçer, Mustafa Orhan Göztepe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2017-07-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
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Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/HTML/ArticleKocer&Goztepe.html
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description In 2009, the Turkish government started the “Kurdish Initiative”, a comprehensive policymaking process, in an attempt to improve the democratic standards and civil rights of the Kurdish population. Even though the initiative ended in 2015, it made it possible for a significant number of independent films to emerge which deal with the Kurdish issue. Historically, mainstream cinema’s symbolic representation of Kurdish identity served to neutralise its Kurdish characters by portraying them as Turkish speaking and one-dimensional. Breaking this tradition, these independent films offer multi-layered, Kurdish speaking characters with progressive narratives. This article investigates three films produced on the eve of and during the “Kurdish Initiative”: My Marlon and Brando (Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom, Hüseyin Karabey, 2008), The Storm (Bahoz, Kazım Öz, 2008) and Future Lasts Forever (Gelecek Uzun Sürer, Özcan Alper, 2011). In addition to interrupting the traditional acceptance of stereotypes by the mainstream cinema, each film discusses the symbolic representations of Kurdish identity through different aspects: transnationality, the role of discriminative processes, and memory and trauma.
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spelling doaj.art-37c1a7fa2747416f8a2402799e1e9ad42022-12-22T01:10:25ZengUniversity College CorkAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media2009-40782017-07-01135468https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.13.03Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,Zeynep Koçerhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8002-4245Mustafa Orhan Göztepehttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9600-3596In 2009, the Turkish government started the “Kurdish Initiative”, a comprehensive policymaking process, in an attempt to improve the democratic standards and civil rights of the Kurdish population. Even though the initiative ended in 2015, it made it possible for a significant number of independent films to emerge which deal with the Kurdish issue. Historically, mainstream cinema’s symbolic representation of Kurdish identity served to neutralise its Kurdish characters by portraying them as Turkish speaking and one-dimensional. Breaking this tradition, these independent films offer multi-layered, Kurdish speaking characters with progressive narratives. This article investigates three films produced on the eve of and during the “Kurdish Initiative”: My Marlon and Brando (Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom, Hüseyin Karabey, 2008), The Storm (Bahoz, Kazım Öz, 2008) and Future Lasts Forever (Gelecek Uzun Sürer, Özcan Alper, 2011). In addition to interrupting the traditional acceptance of stereotypes by the mainstream cinema, each film discusses the symbolic representations of Kurdish identity through different aspects: transnationality, the role of discriminative processes, and memory and trauma.http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/HTML/ArticleKocer&Goztepe.htmlcivil rightskurdish initiativeidentitytransnationalityindependent filmprogressive narrativehüseyin karabeykazım özözcan alpergitmek: benim marlon ve brandombahozgelecek uzun sürersymbolic representationdiscriminative processesmemorytrauma
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Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
civil rights
kurdish initiative
identity
transnationality
independent film
progressive narrative
hüseyin karabey
kazım öz
özcan alper
gitmek: benim marlon ve brandom
bahoz
gelecek uzun sürer
symbolic representation
discriminative processes
memory
trauma
title Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,
title_full Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,
title_fullStr Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,
title_full_unstemmed Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,
title_short Humour, Stereotype, Difference, Racist ideologies, African-American, Incongruity, Superiority, Relief, John Eyres, John Michael McDonagh, Social corrective, Racism,
title_sort humour stereotype difference racist ideologies african american incongruity superiority relief john eyres john michael mcdonagh social corrective racism
topic civil rights
kurdish initiative
identity
transnationality
independent film
progressive narrative
hüseyin karabey
kazım öz
özcan alper
gitmek: benim marlon ve brandom
bahoz
gelecek uzun sürer
symbolic representation
discriminative processes
memory
trauma
url http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/HTML/ArticleKocer&Goztepe.html
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