[ecrea] Call For Papers - Turkish Cinema: How "Neo" Islamic Culture Influences Media

>Turkish Cinema: How Neo Islamic Culture 
>Influences Media (Tentative title, abstract submission till September 1, 2010)
>
>We invite those who wish to collaborate in the 
>implementation of this book coming from 
>Cambridge Scholars Publishig to be published in 
>the last quarter of 2011. We seek collaborations 
>to explore the influence of Islam in popular culture.
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>
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>This book aims to study the Islamic influence on 
>Turkish media, especially on cinema. Turkey has 
>a long tradition of secularism, where religions 
>role was limited in the public arena already by 
>the time of Kemal Atatürk. Since then Turkey 
>sees itself as a secular state, but religious 
>belief is still dominant in the cultural sphere. 
>In Turkish movies, most of the traditions and 
>rituals tend to be derived from the Islamic 
>culture. Turning a critical eye on Turkish 
>movies in Turkish cultural life, the book will 
>examine the Turkish films against the backdrop 
>of the country's overall socio-political 
>development, starting from the beginning of the 
>Turkish film industry. It will try to illustrate 
>a broad array of themes; from gender relations 
>to feminism, religion and popular ideas about 
>sexuality and morality. Focusing on 
>representations of religious minority, it will 
>draw out issues such as the formation of the 
>Turkish nation, Turkeys political and social 
>taboos, and how these effect cinematic stereotyping.
>
>This volume concentrates on various approaches 
>concerning the relation between Turkish cinema 
>and religion, the traditions and rituals of 
>Islam, the representation of Muslim women and of 
>the non-Muslim minorities, and changes in the 
>narratives and characters. This will be a 
>comprehensive source on Turkish cinema in 
>English; a milestone at a time when numerous 
>disciplines have shown an increasing interest in 
>new emerging Islamic popular culture.
>
>The book is addressed to a wider public, but yet 
>scholars such as advanced students will be more 
>interested in this topic. For those who are 
>interested in Turkeys opinion about itself and 
>for people who work in film studies, media 
>studies, religious studies, gender studies and 
>political sciences, who has an interest in 
>Middle-Eastern studies as well as general world 
>cinema enthusiasts. This study will mark an 
>important contribution to international film 
>studies while offering general readers an 
>engrossing and informative perspective on some 
>of the most popular films in Turkish cinema.
>
>
>
>The topics for proposals include, but are not restricted to, the following:
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>The multi-cultural and multi-religious context in Turkish society
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>Central concepts: culture, religion, secularism, media, and cinema
>
>Theoretical framework
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>How Islamic culture influences media
>
>Cultural Origins of Islamic cinema
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>Cultural and historical background of religious media
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>The emergence of Islam in Turkish cinema
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>Islamic cinema in socio-historical context
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>The evolution of the new Islamic cinema, how the 
>characters shape what is the new story telling
>
>Case studies of Turkish Islamic cinema
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>Case studies of ethnic and religious minority cinema in Turkey
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>Islam centred horror movies
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>Intimate relations / Representation of Muslim 
>women / reframing women and marriage
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>Modernization period of Turkey
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>Representation of traditions, rituals, moral codes.
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>Representation of family relations
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>The politics of Islam
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>Populism in Islamic media
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>Everyday life culture
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>Narratives of cultural changes
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>Cinema and Islamic society
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>Alternative Movements
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>Neo-Islamic culture
>
>Proposals can be submitted only in English,. The 
>publication rules will be sent to authors. For 
>any questions or suggestions, contact Asli 
>Kotaman 
>(<mailto:(aslikotaman /at/ plato.edu.tr)>(aslikotaman /at/ plato.edu.tr)) 
>and Önver Cetrez 
>(<mailto:(andreas_onver.cetrez /at/ teol.uu.se)>(andreas_onver.cetrez /at/ teol.uu.se))
>
>
>
>Submission of articles and proposals:
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>
>
>1. An abstract of no more than 300 words may be 
>in Word, WordPerfect or RTF, in this order:
>
>a) Author (s), b) affiliation, c) email address, 
>d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract. The 
>document must be sent in Times New Roman 12. 
>Refrain from using a special text format.
>
>2. Abstracts submission deadline: September 1, 
>2010. Acceptance will be notified before the end of September 2010.
>
>3. The final extension of the chapter shall be 
>about 6000-8000 words, including bibliography 
>(following Harvard Anglo-APA quotation system). 
>This also must be submitted in Word, WordPerfect 
>or RTF. The deadline for submitting papers is December 20, 2010.
>
>4. Doubts, proposals and complete chapters will 
>be sent by email to Asli Kotaman 
>(<mailto:(aslikotaman /at/ plato.edu.tr)>(aslikotaman /at/ plato.edu.tr))
>
>5. The chapters will be reviewed by the editors of the volume.
>
>Editors: Asli Kotaman, Önver Çetrez, Artun Avci.
>
>Assist. Prof. Aslý Kotaman Avci
>Vice Director
>Plato Higher Education
>Balat 34087 Ýstanbul
>Phone:0090 212 444 76 96- (ext.108)
>Fax: 0090 212 621 45 03
>E-mail: <mailto:(aslikotaman /at/ plato.edu.tr)>(aslikotaman /at/ plato.edu.tr)
>Web: <http://www.plato.edu.tr/>www.plato.edu.tr

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