Nuri Bilge Ceylan Sineması

Author: Graeme Gilloch, Craig Hammond, Bülent Diken

Nuri Bilge Ceylan gained international success with his films that were praised by critics as well as moviegoers, and established himself as one of the most original and provocative filmmakers of the twenty-first century. Despite this, attempts by film and media researchers to explore the unique style, mood and themes of Ceylan's films have been limited, and the themes of Ceylan's cinema have not yet been the subject of comprehensive sociological and critical thought.

Three authors attempt this in the book they wrote together in an argumentative dialogue: They try to reinforce, by imitating, the "moments of dialectical interaction" that give Ceylan's films their distinctive feature, not to solve the paradoxes and contradictions. They follow the traces of five basic themes that are continuous in Ceylan's cinema: particular time and space formations such as homelessness, nostalgia, migration and displacement; an ongoing feeling of nothingness and absence; mourning, melancholy and boredom; metropolitan modernity; transnationalism. Thus, instead of considering Ceylan's cinema in the context of a burgeoning "New Turkish Cinema", they place these films in a transnational context supported by classical European (especially French, German and Russian) thought, literature and films.

For sociologists, cultural theorists, but more importantly, moviegoers; This book is for those who are eagerly awaiting Nuri Bilge Ceylan's next films and his unique imagination.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)