Beschreibung
Over the course of the disciplines history, there have been many debates on the status of the cinema. From the beginning, cinema was subjected to a high-art prejudice of literary tradition since it addresses the masses and is broadly considered simple entertainment. The prevailing belief of filmmakers and cinema-writers up to the 1950s was that both the quality and art-status of cinema were supposed to be provided by the films content. Auteurism was born in France in resistance to such a belief. Rather than being grounded in a full-fledged theory, auteurism has been simply defined as an approach to distinguish some directors (inherent even in Hollywood) from the anonymous others by their distinctive and consistent styles recognized through their oeuvres. In this study, the concept of auteurism is preserved in its "traditional" sense, as an anchoring point to allow this study to explicate the conception and the perception of the "auteur" in the history of Turkish cinema, and then to declare Yavuz Turgul as an auteur in the traditional sense of the term by depending on the data reached after the analysis of his oeuvre from the traditional auteurist perspective.
Autorenporträt
Basak Göksel Demiray has worked as a free lance assistant director in Turkish cinema and television sectors for ten years. Following her career as an A.D., she has attended to an MA program in the field of cinema at Bahçesehir University-Turkey and recently completed her thesis that focuses on auteurism and films of Turkish director Yavuz Turgul.
