Traditional Auteurism and Recent Cinema of Turkey

by Baak Göksel Demiray

Over the course of the discipline's 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 film's content. Auteurism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3659139068
• ISBN13: 9783659139062
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"