Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup

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This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by examining feature films and television serials produced between 1980 and 2010 about the 1980 coup. Envisioned as an interdisciplinary study in cultural studies rather than a disciplinary work on cinema, the book advocates for an understanding of popular culture in discerning emerging narratives of nationhood. Through feature films and television serials directly dealing with the coup of 1980, the book exposes tropes and discursive continuities such as “childhood” and “the child”. It argues that these conventional tropes enable popular debates on the modern nation’s history and its myths of identity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 1-49 Framing the 1980 Coup Films as a Cultural and Cinematographic Discourse (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 51-95 The Search for a Pre-Traumatized Childhood (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 97-124 Films of Trauma Unfolding: Confinement (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 125-159 Films of Trauma Unfolding: Disorientation and Loss (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 161-181 Reconstruction of Innocence: The Embroidered Rose on My Scarf (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 183-202 Television Searches Deeper and Farther: Remember, My Darling (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 203-240 The Impossibility of Forgetting: Would This Heart Forget You? (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 241-265 Conclusion (Pelin Başcı)....Pages 267-292 Back Matter ....Pages 293-340