Stalkers of Istanbul: Silence, Urban Space and Damaged Masculinity in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Distant

Çağlayan, Emre

doi:10.1080/10509208.2020.1840881

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“…Emre Çağlayan draws attention to Ceylan’s previous work such as Uzak where similar themes of silence and exposition of urban space as a mental desert can be found. He comments that Ceylan’s “male leads are lonely wanderers, whose desire for women is unmatched by their voiceless disposition and their inability to use language, which are classic symbols of castration” (Çağlayan 2022, 324). However, the wandering of the characters in Ahlat Ağacı is no longer aimless as Sinan (and Ceylan) chooses the locus of the wanderings, i.e.…”

Section: Resisting Hegemonic Masculinitiesmentioning

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On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree)

Adak

Akser

2023

New Perspect. Turk.

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This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse to succumb to hegemonic codes of masculinity. Through this cinematic refusal by an anti-hero (Sinan), the film addresses the crisis of hegemonic masculinities in their interconnectedness to militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. Through Sinan’s quest for self-realization, the film signals not only the impotence and vanity of nationalist masculinities but also the caesuras and instabilities in national myths. As the last film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new Land of Ghosts trilogy, which started with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep, Ahlat Ağacı seems to close the cycle with a final scene that bespeaks the possibility of unearthing lost others of national mythmaking, bringing fertility and hope to the lands in which collective amnesia reigns supreme.

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Section: Resisting Hegemonic Masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree)

Adak

Akser

2023

New Perspect. Turk.

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Optimization Method of Urban Square Public Space from the Perspective of Contextualism

Zhang

Lee

2022

Scientific Programming

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In the era of rapid development of science and technology, in order to attract the public's attention, many architectural designs unilaterally pursue nonmainstream design, completely ignoring the surrounding environment and historical context. The original spatial features and scales have disappeared, and the root cause is that the spatial shaping is separated from the urban context. Urban design that continues the urban context is not only a method to solve specific urban space problems and contradictions but also an important means to build a beautiful urban space and achieve sustainable development. The urban design of the two banks of the Pinghe River in the east of Foshan is based on the sorting and analysis of the material and spiritual elements of the context of the base. This article will go back to the trend of Western architectural contexts and discuss how to design new buildings while respecting the historical context of the city through rational speculation on the two dimensions of contextualism architectural theory, space and time, combined with architectural cases.

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Stalkers of Istanbul: Silence, Urban Space and Damaged Masculinity in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Distant

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree)

On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree)

Optimization Method of Urban Square Public Space from the Perspective of Contextualism

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