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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
The Rise of Far East Narration and Its Reflection on Current Turkish Cinema
In the time between the birth of the cinema till the World War I, cinema industry
especially started to develop in France and America, in the years when narration cinema in its
infancy films were soundless so the language obstacle was removed and many countries could
export as many films as they import. The regression in film production in Europe with World
War I forced America to increase its production to compensate its decreasing film export and
in the later years of the War, Europe was not able to produce films and American cinema
started to dominate world cinema market. As the number of profit-oriented films Hollywood
cinema produced to sustain its superiority in the market increased, similar themes, stories
were produced again and again, and the decreasing interest of the viewers to similar stories
caused the industry to seek new themes.
In this study, the effect of Far East cinema on recent horror films in Turkish cinema-
which has formed a commercial cinema narration under the effect of Hollywood- in the
context of the relation of Hollywood cinema with Far East cinema by using genre criticism,
one of the film criticism analysis methods. In Turkish samples of horror films, the influences
of cinema narration supplied with traditional cultural codes of Far East cinema led to the
emergence of significant changes in the narration form of general cinematic discourse in
horror type.
Key Words: Turkish horror cinema, Horror films, Far East Narration
1. Introduction
Cinema as a way of visualization of dramatic texts came into being as as a new
narrator of mankind’s thousands years of myths, fantasies, dreams and a technical invention in
the 19th century, it did not take long to be noticed as a commercial value. In these years when
immigration to city increased, while cinema composed of short movies which people -who
move to cities in large number to work- watch short sections from life, cinema with its rapid
developing narration ability moved from fairground to city centers: cinema palaces. With
Griffith who left his mark in soundless cinema language structure of cinema started to
develop and cinema made fast steps as means of narrating story. As film making started to
regress in Europe with World War I, American films began to fill in this gap soon.. After
World War I, although the pioneers of modern cinema language began to emerge, particularly
in Germany and the USSR, America -coming out of war almost without any damage
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