Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of 21st century cinema. In an age where Turkey's modernisation has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan's films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of 'nostalgia' understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan's work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow and uncompromising in their pessimistic outlook. Moving on from the tendency to situate Ceylan's oeuvre exclusively within the canon of 'New Turkish Cinema', one of this book's major achievements is also to assess the influence of classic European thought, literature and film and how such a notably minimal - and in many ways nationally-specific - approach translates to an increasingly transnational context for film. This will prove an important book for film students and scholars, and those interested in Turkish visual culture.

The first substantial study of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's work set in both the context of transnational film networks and the popular 'New Turkish Cinema'.

About the Author
Bulent Diken teaches Social and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University, UK. In particular, his research interests include the sociology of cinema and urbanism, and he has a number of previous publications which include The Culture of Exception (2008) and Sociology through the Projector (2005).Graeme Gilloch is Reader at Lancaster University, where he researches and teaches courses in visual culture - especially film and photography - and metropolitan and urban cultures.Craig Hammond is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Society at Blackburn College, UK, where he researches film from a sociological perspective, amongst other interests.

Reviews
`This is a rich, insightful and thought-provoking book which brings new light to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's cinema from a philosophical standpoint. The eloquent and sometimes poetic style of the book charmingly resonates with the tranquil mood of films that it investigates.' - Asuman Suner, ?stanbul Technical University, `Through the lens of sociology and cultural theory, the authors examine the ideas emerging from Ceylan's cinema, offering an in-depth, layered but accessible analysis of his filmmaking. Makes clear why there is such a buzz about Ceylan!' - Ozge Samanci, Northwestern University



Book Information
ISBN 9781784538163
Author Bulent Diken
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC