Bize Bir Masal Anlat İstanbul: Masalını Yitiren Kent ve Kültür Erozyonu
Tell Us a Tale İstanbul: The Lost Tale of a Big City and Cultural Erosion

Summary/Abstract: Fairy tale, re-born in every time it’s told and migrate from one land to another is a traditional oral culture product. However, the everyday life transformations in modern world also affected the context of fairy tales as we used to. Now tales are transferring from one generation to another not in a traditional way but mostly in written or electronic ways. When tales were immigrating rural to urban, the context of it also transformed. Because, the new context of tales is cinema in urban culture, this article focuses on rural-urban paradox by analyzing the movie Anlat İstanbul. Anlat İstanbul is a movie shown in March 2005 and about fairy tales and its heroes in İstanbul. Concepts like modernization, tradition, urbanization, cultural erosion will be discussed within the context of urbanization process of the oral culture and traditions over the movie Anlar İstanbul. In addition, depressions and failures of the fairy heroes will be explored.

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