The Exorcist in Istanbul
Processes of Transcultural Appropriation Within Turkish Popular Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12650855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iain Robert Smith (0000-0003-4190-7883, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-2490 • E-ISSN: 1449-2490 |
| Publisher | UTS ePRESS (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.5130/portal.v5i1.489 |
| OpenAlex | W2155488972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In 1974, producer Hulki Saner hired acclaimed director Metin Erksan to direct an unofficial remake of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973). The resultant film, ?eytan, took the plot, characters and set-pieces from the prior film and translated them into a predominantly Islamic setting. This process of intercultural dialogue exemplifies Yesilçam, a cycle of low-budget cinema from Turkey that flourished throughout the 1960s and 1970s in which elements of Western popular culture were being borrowed and remoulded into the Turkish context. Drawing on Tom O’Regan’s model of cultural exchange and transmission, this article seeks to build a model of intercultural dialogue attendant to the underlying tensions and negotiations within this hybridised cultural text, an issue of particular contemporary resonance at a time when the EU is proposing 2008 as the ‘Year of Intercultural Dialogue’ and Turkey is itself in talks over its accession to the EU. Building upon that oft used model of Istanbul as a ‘cultural bridge’ between East and West, this article shall examine how Turkish cinema of the 1970s drew upon and appropriated elements from US popular culture. While ?eytan has been dismissed by some cultural commentators as derivative plagiarism, this article argues for a more nuanced model of cross-cultural exchange based around dialogue and interaction, attendant to the interstitial relationships through which cultures meet and interact
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Turkish · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |