Ozduzen, O. orcid.org/0000-0003-3639-9650 (2020) ‘Cinema as a common activity’ : Film audiences, social inclusion, and heterogeneity in Istanbul during the Occupy Gezi. Journal of Language and Politics, 19 (3). pp. 436-456. ISSN 1569-2159
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the ways in which mediating spaces like film festivals function as alternative public spheres when social movements escalate, arguing that the Istanbul International Film Festival and Documentarist right before, during and following the Gezi protests turned into politically and socially inclusive spaces for marginalised groups in Turkey. To account for how audiences and organisers aimed to transform these mediating spaces into socially inclusive and heterogeneous outlets during the Gezi protests, the paper relies on an audience ethnography in the sites of these film festivals from 2013 until 2017 including participant observation, go-alongs and in-depth interviews with audiences, film crews and organizers. Although the spaces of these two film festivals functioned differently, the article shows that film festival spaces generally transformed into cosmopolitan outlets in Istanbul in this period, opening room for a dialogue between marginalised and dominant groups, which was fed by social movements
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Language and Politics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | audience research; cosmopolitanism; counter-public sphere; festivals; Gezi Park; Istanbul; media activism; social inclusion |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2021 14:25 |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2021 15:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/jlp.18071.ozd |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176848 |