How Does Cinema Reflect Traumatic Memory?: A Study on Turkish Cinema and Trauma Films
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Collective memory is a significant concept and debating issue of recent years. The countries that have sorrowful past and wrongdoings in political and social aspect, try to confront with these realities. Remembering these traumatic experiences is a hard and irritating but also important work, because, giving voice to traumatic past and recognizing it as part of history is a necessary step in escaping from patterns of suffering. For recovering, trauma should emerge, should be spoken and criticized. Traumatic memory and its representation through cinematographic narration give some clues about community. Turkey has many traumatic realities like; military coups, tortures,unsolved murders, ethnic conflicts and forced migration. Cinema helps society in remembering and curing the traumatic memories by representing them. Therefore, this study aims to show different representations of traumatic memories in last ten years of Turkish cinema. Exploring this will reveal “How Turkish society show up its own social memory and bad happenings of the past?” From this perspective research sample films are Güneşe Yolculuk, Sonbahar, YazıTura, Eve Dönüş and Güz Sancısı.
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Collective memory is a significant concept and debating issue of recent years. The countries that have sorrowful past and wrongdoings in political and social aspect, try to confront with these realities. Remembering these traumatic experiences is a hard and irritating but also important work, because, giving voice to traumatic past and recognizing it as part of history is a necessary step in escaping from patterns of suffering. For recovering, trauma should emerge, should be spoken and criticized. Traumatic memory and its representation through cinematographic narration give some clues about community. Turkey has many traumatic realities like; military coups, tortures,unsolved murders, ethnic conflicts and forced migration. Cinema helps society in remembering and curing the traumatic memories by representing them. Therefore, this study aims to show different representations of traumatic memories in last ten years of Turkish cinema. Exploring this will reveal “How Turkish society show up its own social memory and bad happenings of the past?” From this perspective research sample films are Güneşe Yolculuk, Sonbahar, YazıTura, Eve Dönüş and Güz Sancısı.
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