Revisiting dark pasts

The portrayal of Jewish minority and audience responses to the Netflix series The Club

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ID21157005
AuthorsSenem B Çevik (0000-0002-9288-5840, Woodbury University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Pages1-19
Publication date2024-09-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-3857 • E-ISSN: 1743-9639
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14683857.2024.2406040
OpenAlexW4402862615
LanguageEN
References cited50

The Club, a Turkish series exclusively produced for Netflix, challenges the official historical narrative of modern Turkey by depicting the experiences of minorities on the brink of the country’s political upheaval. It highlights the state’s complex relations with its minorities and historical events that are often silenced in the official historical narrative. This study looks at how Turkey’s dark pasts pertaining to its religious minorities are portrayed in The Club and the ways in which its audience respond to these dark pasts. It argues that the audience of The Club recreates the silences about the past, resulting in the denial or rationalization of state violence, while emphasizing a nostalgic multi-cultural past

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Club · Judaism · Media studies · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Geology

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