Film Kartografisi: Sinemasal Mekâna Dair Felsefî Düşünceler
Film Cartography: Philosophizing on The Cinematic Spaces

Summary/Abstract: The mainstream film cinema studies, including film researches, embrace the same approach also in history writing and have the mainstream cinema theories in their center. These theories mostly are at pains to look into the core of the movie and thus have the film material itself and\or its director in focus. However, on the other hand, the inherent properties of the cinema itself are what make an interdisciplinary and thus holistic look necessary, because elements which have specific different singular meanings or even no meaning at all gains its significance in the comprehensive narrative of the film. The director, who gathers or, in one sense, builds all these elements, creates the scape anew in structuring the narrative of the film. In other words, the cinematic narrative creates the space by fictionalizing it, if its source is in the physical world, or by behaving as if its source exists in the physical world, if not. Thus, consciously or unconsciously, the director uses cinematic geography such that it becomes a part of the narrative, rather than just a background. In the studies of the New Cinema History, whose claims about the director are substantially different from the ones of the mainstream cinema studies, both physical and cinematic spaces have just begun to be studied with the extraordinarily original method of cartography. Also, in this study, the literature in cinematic cartography, which deems the director not only a mere auteur, writer, or painter as in the mainstream approach, but also a cartographer, and which enables the cartographic method in creating and analyzing the cinematic narrative, will be overviewed. In the scope of the present study, firstly, the philosophical context rendering the ontology of cinema possible will be explained. Secondly, the theoretical framework of the cinematic cartography will be presented, and the terms necessary to understand this framework will be analyzed. Thus, cinematic meaning studied by cinematic cartography opens the way for reevaluating the space in the narrative with a philosophical insight.

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