Nostalji Perdesi Ve Geçmişi İcat Etmek
The Veil Of Nostalgia And Inventing The Past

Summary/Abstract: Cinema has always featured dream scenes. Nostalgia can also be considered a type of dream. In cultural terms, nostalgia is a modern phenomenon. Nostalgia exists because modernity represents a denial or severing of all ties with the past. In an attempt to remember the past, nostalgia represents a deep yearning for what has been lost. Cinema also makes use of nostalgic representations, as they allow entertainment-oriented cinema to produce easy-to-watch scenes. Accordingly, nostalgia can be said to have a character that diverges from or ignores historical reality. That said, nostalgia also has the ability to demonstrate the effects of traumatic events. Events with a strong message can be presented to viewers by amending their impact via nostalgic representation. This study aims to examine the use of nostalgic representations in Turkish cinema in the post-2000 period. The theoretical framework of the study is based on the dualities of modernity and nostalgia, cinema and dream, and television and cinema. To this end, it focuses on nostalgic representations in post-2000 mainstream Turkish cinema, aiming to show that in taking up history, these films attempt to shed light on social events. The study argues that nostalgic representations, characterized by entertainment and consumption, are used to dilute the effects of historical events and to recycle them.

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