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UNVEILING SECRETS: RETHINKING HISTORY THROUGH DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 3, 345 - 352, 29.12.2015
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.67151

Öz

The dominating ideology determines the historiography, as well as the media narrative, created in line with dominating ideology plays an important role in consolidating the historical information. So, also cinema has a function to legitimize the dominating institutions and traditional values and to instill ideology. In this context, documentary, which, rely heavily on the truth as a genre and has the most credibility among its viewers, become an important arena for the execution of these functions. Today as the alternative narratives, that can be produced and distributed extensively with digital technology besides mainstream media narratives, small, personal narratives can be located against the grand, official and historical narratives. Film and video become an effective carrier of memory and acquire historical value as audio and video recording gaine prevalence. Thus, documentaries using these records to contribute to the social memory and make reminding against the official history, have come to an important point about historical issues. Documentaries, with the stories of individuals, so with a narrative from the private to the general, may, bring out important notes about the history, reveal secrets, raise questions about the accepted truths. Besides, the others in confrontation would have chance to hear each other’s voices; testimonies strengthens the hearing; intercultural dialogue increases even it is mediated. Bearing in mind the re-presentation of the reality in the documentary narrative and subjectivity of individual expressions, new comments and information emerged within the framework of testimonies find their places in time in social memory and so may contribute to the different interpretations of the history.

Turkish - Armenian relations, with the common history, provides an efficient field of work to analyze the formation and re-formation of historical events in the social memory, the official history and the ‘other’ official history. Therefore, in this paper, documentaries, realized as a result of the works of institutions such as the Armenia Turkey Cinema Platform, which tell the untold stories of decades through individual stories and show way to sides to recognize each other, will be analyzed with their narrative structures and discourses to better understand the potential of documentaries to contribute to the social memory and history, as historical testimonies.

Keywords: Memory, testimony, history, documentary film, Turkey, Armenia

Kaynakça

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Yıl 2015, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 3, 345 - 352, 29.12.2015
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.67151

Öz

Kaynakça

  • Berkhofer, R. F. (1997). Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse. Harvard University Press.
  • Birchall, D. (2008). Online Documentary. Thomas Austin, Wilma de Jong(Ed.), Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices içinde. Maidenhead/New York: McGraw Hill, 278-84.
  • Chirwa, W. (1997). “Collective Memory and The Process of Reconciliation and Reconstruction”. Development in Practice. 7:4, 479-482,
  • Cizek, K. (2005). “Storytelling for Advocacy: Conceptualization and Preproduction”. Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism, 74-121.
  • Ellis J. C., McLane B. A. (2005). A New History of Documentary Film. Continuum International Publishing Group.
  • Huyssen A. (1999). Alacakaranlık Anıları. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları.
  • Ignatieff, M. (1996). “Articles of Faith”. http://archive.niza.nl/uk/publications/001/ignatieff.htm
  • LeCompte, E. (1981). “Who Owns History?”. Performıng Arts Journal. Vol. 6. No. 1. 50-53.
  • Neyzi, L., Kharatyan-Araqelyan, H. (2010). Birbirimizle Konuşmak: Türkiye ve Ermenistan'da Kişisel Bellek Anlatıları. DVV International.
  • Susam, A. (2015). Toplumsal Bellek ve Belgesel Sinema. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları.
  • Walker, J. (1997). T”he Traumatic Paradox: Documentary Films, Historical Fictions, and Cataclysmic Past Events”. Signs. Vol. 22, No. 4, 803-825.
  • Waterson, R. (2007). “Trajectories of Memory: Documentary Film and the Transmission of Testimony”. History and Anthropology. 18:1, 51-73.
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Bölüm Makaleler
Yazarlar

Nihan Gider Işıkman

Yayımlanma Tarihi 29 Aralık 2015
Gönderilme Tarihi 27 Aralık 2015
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2015Cilt: 1 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

EndNote Işıkman NG (01 Aralık 2015) UNVEILING SECRETS: RETHINKING HISTORY THROUGH DOCUMENTARY FILMS. IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 1 3 345–352.

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