Özgür Yaren
Biographic Data
| ID | 806096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Özgür Yaren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Özgür |
| FAMILY NAME | Yaren |
| SIGNATURE | YAREN Ö |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chulalongkorn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0760-0303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Aesthetics
Despite growing recognition that cultural legitimation is shaped by non-aesthetic values, we know little about how political and religious concerns enter cultural evaluation during periods of ideological conflict. This article examines critics’ efforts to legitimise art for conservative audiences in contemporary Turkey, where political Islam has sought to reshape cultural hierarchies. Drawing on a content analysis of cultural journalism between 2…
Türkiye Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler Konferansının Ardından
7-9 Mayıs 2026 tarihlerinde düzenlenen XXV. Türkiye Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler Konferansının bu yılki teması “Sinema ve Metot”du. Konferans 25. yılında sinema akademisyenlerini ve profesyonelleri bir araya getirdi. Sinema çalışmalarında yeni metotlar ve yaklaşımlar tartışıldı
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey
This study explores how conservative/Islamic art audiences in Turkey describe and classify good taste in art and how their cultural repertoires inform their notions of 'us' and 'them'. Despite the significant popular attention conservative art and its associated taste communities have received with the rise of political Islam, little is known about how such art is understood by its audience or its position within existing taste hierarchies. Drawi…
A question of autonomy
The Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey has rapidly expanded during the 20-year rule of Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party. Despite popular debates regarding the rise of ‘conservative art’, academic studies have thus far limited their focus to the cultural policies and actions of the ruling power. Consequently, our understanding of cultural producers within this expanding sphere, their aesthetic viewpoints and their position withi…
Auteurism, Recognition and Reception
This chapter focuses on spectatorship and reception of Ceylan’s films both in Turkey and around the globe to demonstrate how Ceylan has secured his position of a global auteur and a part of a national film canon simultaneously in the complex and precarious map of artistic recognition. A detailed content analysis of texts and reviews of film scholars, amateur and professional critics demonstrate the issue of reception, and an account of the develo…
Auteurism, Recognition and Reception
Critics, politics and cultural legitimation
In this article, we draw on the growing Euro-American literature on cultural recognition, legitimacy, and film criticism and focus on the classificatory struggles taking place in the Turkish film field. We content-analyze the criteria that critics deploy as they review films as recognized by different institutions and actors. Multiple correspondence analysis demonstrates that the distinction between artistic and commercial films is still very pro…
The Turkish Sex Influx
This article explores trash erotic productions in 1970s Turkish cinema. What was popularly referred to as the “sex influx” (seks furyası) was the result of persistent economic and political crises and symptomatic of the ends of certain cultural and economic modes dominant in film production. Although Turkish film producers first adapted European exploitation films (particularly Italian erotic comedies), in time they created a trashy and irregular…
Turkish Erotics
Critics, politics and cultural legitimation
In this article, we draw on the growing Euro-American literature on cultural recognition, legitimacy, and film criticism and focus on the classificatory struggles taking place in the Turkish film field. We content-analyze the criteria that critics deploy as they review films as recognized by different institutions and actors. Multiple correspondence analysis demonstrates that the distinction between artistic and commercial films is still very pro…
Turkish Erotics
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey
This study explores how conservative/Islamic art audiences in Turkey describe and classify good taste in art and how their cultural repertoires inform their notions of 'us' and 'them'. Despite the significant popular attention conservative art and its associated taste communities have received with the rise of political Islam, little is known about how such art is understood by its audience or its position within existing taste hierarchies. Drawi…
The Turkish Sex Influx
This article explores trash erotic productions in 1970s Turkish cinema. What was popularly referred to as the “sex influx” (seks furyası) was the result of persistent economic and political crises and symptomatic of the ends of certain cultural and economic modes dominant in film production. Although Turkish film producers first adapted European exploitation films (particularly Italian erotic comedies), in time they created a trashy and irregular…
Turkish Erotics
Critics, politics and cultural legitimation
In this article, we draw on the growing Euro-American literature on cultural recognition, legitimacy, and film criticism and focus on the classificatory struggles taking place in the Turkish film field. We content-analyze the criteria that critics deploy as they review films as recognized by different institutions and actors. Multiple correspondence analysis demonstrates that the distinction between artistic and commercial films is still very pro…
The Turkish Sex Influx
This article explores trash erotic productions in 1970s Turkish cinema. What was popularly referred to as the “sex influx” (seks furyası) was the result of persistent economic and political crises and symptomatic of the ends of certain cultural and economic modes dominant in film production. Although Turkish film producers first adapted European exploitation films (particularly Italian erotic comedies), in time they created a trashy and irregular…
Auteurism, Recognition and Reception
This chapter focuses on spectatorship and reception of Ceylan’s films both in Turkey and around the globe to demonstrate how Ceylan has secured his position of a global auteur and a part of a national film canon simultaneously in the complex and precarious map of artistic recognition. A detailed content analysis of texts and reviews of film scholars, amateur and professional critics demonstrate the issue of reception, and an account of the develo…
Auteurism, Recognition and Reception
A question of autonomy
The Islamic-conservative cultural sphere in Turkey has rapidly expanded during the 20-year rule of Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party. Despite popular debates regarding the rise of ‘conservative art’, academic studies have thus far limited their focus to the cultural policies and actions of the ruling power. Consequently, our understanding of cultural producers within this expanding sphere, their aesthetic viewpoints and their position withi…
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey
This study explores how conservative/Islamic art audiences in Turkey describe and classify good taste in art and how their cultural repertoires inform their notions of 'us' and 'them'. Despite the significant popular attention conservative art and its associated taste communities have received with the rise of political Islam, little is known about how such art is understood by its audience or its position within existing taste hierarchies. Drawi…
Beyond Aesthetics
Despite growing recognition that cultural legitimation is shaped by non-aesthetic values, we know little about how political and religious concerns enter cultural evaluation during periods of ideological conflict. This article examines critics’ efforts to legitimise art for conservative audiences in contemporary Turkey, where political Islam has sought to reshape cultural hierarchies. Drawing on a content analysis of cultural journalism between 2…
Türkiye Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler Konferansının Ardından
7-9 Mayıs 2026 tarihlerinde düzenlenen XXV. Türkiye Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler Konferansının bu yılki teması “Sinema ve Metot”du. Konferans 25. yılında sinema akademisyenlerini ve profesyonelleri bir araya getirdi. Sinema çalışmalarında yeni metotlar ve yaklaşımlar tartışıldı
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works)