Table of Contents
Introduction: To Somewhere Where the Last Word Does Not Exist 1
Ideology: Towards a Quest for Definition and Functionality 7
Marx and Bourgeois Ideology 9
Althusser Tracing Marx: The Godfather in the Sphere of Ideology 10
Gramsci and Hegemony 12
Foucault, Logocentrism, and Other Prospects 12
Ideology and Art: Two Cognitive Aludels 15
Ideology and Cinema: A Never-ending Story of Two Coats of Paint 19
Turkish Cinema: Lingering around the Limbo of Non/Existence 31
Cinema on the Last Days of the Ottoman Magnificence 31
The Single-Party Period till 1950, the Beginning of the Multi-Party Democracy 34
M. Kemal Ataturk's Personal Attitude towards Cinema 38
Early Days of Cinema of the Republic and Muhsin Ertugrul, the Dictatorial Director of the Single-Party Period 39
Public Houses and Village Chambers 44
1950-1960: Multi-Party System and Coup D'état 45
1960-12 September 1980: An Era of Polarization and Confusion 48
The Yesilçam Legend: More than a Street of Film and Cinema 51
National (Milli) Cinema: The Conservative Emphasis on Theological and Ethical Values 54
National (Ulusal) Cinema: A Quest to Overcome Ages-Long Identity Crisis 57
The Cinema of Turkish-Style Social Realism: On the Borderline of a Socialist Simulacrum and Communist Utopia 61
The Revolutionist Cinema, Sinematek and the Case of Yimaz Güney 64
12 September 1980-1990: Marching Boots Leading to the Tunnel of Horror 69
After 90's: Same Old Same Old, towards a New Millennium 72
Instead of an Epilogue 77
Re-reading Kemalist Ideology and Turkish Modernization Story: Attacking to the Past for Favoring the New 80
The Name of the Hope: The Conservative Turkish Cinema-The Efforts of Yücel Çakmakli and His Disciples 89
References 95
