Oryantalist Bakış Yeniden: Djam (Aman Doktor) Filminde İstanbul
The Orientalist Look Again: İstanbul in the Djam

Summary/Abstract: This study explores the movie Djam (Aman Doktor, Tony Gatlif, 2017) focusing on orientalism studies that examine the power position in the discourses that the West produces about places and cultures outside of itself. Istanbul has an important place in examining the representations of the West’s artistic, scientific and academic texts about the East, as it is seen as the entry point of exotic lands in the journeys between Europe and the East. In the study, while focusing on the images of Istanbul in the movie Aman Doktor, Eastern fantasies that find their place in the orientalist theory are used. In the film, the hero’s journey to look for the missing / missing object, the connecting rod, raises the question of how the traveler uses differences. This missing object, which cannot be found in Greece located in the east of the European continent, is also analyzed in the Lacanian sense. Accordingly, in the film, it is emphasized that Istanbul as the object of desire originates from the fantasy of the inaccessible. As a result, it is said that the film contains orientalist marginalizing features produced for the East.

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