TÜRKAN ŞORAY FİLMLERİNDE HALK KÜLTÜRÜ UNSURLARININ İŞLEVLERİ
THE FUNCTIONS OF FOLK CULTURE ELEMENTS IN TÜRKAN ŞORAY FILMS

Summary/Abstract: The material and spiritual values of a nation have been conveyed to the future by explaining, writing and using visuality elements from ancient times to the present. With the change of the age, the transferring environments of cultural elements have differentiated. The secondary oral culture age, which started with writing and continues its existence through newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cinema and internet, constitutes the areas of transfer of folk culture elements. Among these environments, cinema stands out with its features such as being able to appeal to many people at the same time, being able to attract attention as audiovisual, and conveying elements of folk culture. Cinema and culture, which centered people and life, have become two elements that feed each other over time. Society sees the emotions, situations and events that take place in daily life on the silver screen as well. The presence of visuals adorned with elements of folk culture and the reflection of many practices among the people on the speech, dress, attitude and behavior of the actors pave the way for the adoption of motion pictures and actors by the society. In the films featuring Türkan Şoray, one of the important artists of Turkish cinema, the basic cultural values, traditions and folk culture elements of the Turkish people are present to a great extent. In this study, ‘Güllü Geliyor Güllü (GGG)’ (1973), ‘Sultan Gelin (SG)’ (1973), ‘Bir Aşk Masalı Ferhat ile Şirin (BAMFİŞ)’ (1978), ‘Hazal (H)’ (1979), ‘Yılanı Öldürseler (YÖ)’ (1981), ‘Berdel (B)’ (1990), ‘Şahmaran (Ş)’ (1993) in which Türkan Şoray is one of the leading actors, films will be analyzed on the basis of Sedat Veyis Örnek’s classification of folklore cadres and will be revealed the functions of folk culture elements in these films.

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