Atatürk on screen : documentary film and the making of a leader

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    • Dinç, Enis

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Atatürk on screen : documentary film and the making of a leader

Enis Dinç

I.B. Tauris, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232] and index.

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his public image gradually turned him into a superhuman figure in the eyes of many. Film played a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of this image and helped Ataturk to advance his project of building a new "imagined community" of the Turkish nation. But despite the impact of film and film-making on the political and cultural life of Early Republican Turkey, there is almost no research that has analysed this footage. Ataturk on Screen uncovers various film archives to reveal the significant, albeit paradoxical, role of film during this period. Enis Dinc shows that while film-making was crucial for the creation of Ataturk's public image and the presentation of Turkey's new modern image to the world, it also posed risks as it could be re-used, re-edited and re-framed for the purposes of counter-propaganda. The main analysis in the book is of the film footage itself, including rare contemporary cinematic sources which have never received comprehensive analysis before. The book also makes use of other primary sources such as letters, memoirs, newspapers, reports, newsletters and production files, providing readers with a multi-layered account of the period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Early Cinema in the Ottoman Empire Chapter 2: Filming the Struggle for Independence (1919-1923) Chapter 3: Performing Modernity: The Film of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on his Forest Farm Chapter 4: How to Impress an American: The Power of the Motion Picture Chapter 5: Father of All Turks: How the March of Time newsreel series represented Ataturk Epilogue Bibliography

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