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Introduction -- Pre-yeşilçam : cinema in Turkey until the late 1940s -- Early yeşilçam : the advent of yeşilçam in the 1950s -- High yeşilçam I : industry and dubbing -- High yeşilçam II : genres and films -- Late yeşilçam : melting in the 1980s -- Postmortem for yeşilçam : post…
'Cinema in Turkey' offers a critical history of feature cinema in Turkey, considering how this cinema developed modes of communication reflective of both existing traditions and region-specific responses to modernization and nation-building.
With over six thousand films, Turkey has produced more films than any other country in the Middle East or the Balkans. Despite its prolific and popular nature, this national film industry has often been denigrated as imitative, simplistic, and underdeveloped. Taking up precisely…