Nezih Erdoğan
Nezih Erdogan teaches film history, screenwriting and digital storytelling at Istinye University, Istanbul. He has published articles and book chapters on colonial discourse, national identity, and sound and body in Turkish popular cinema, the reception of Hollywood in Turkey, censorship and the distribution-exhibition of American films in Turkey. He co-edited Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context with Miyase Christensen. In recent years, he has published and given talks at national and international conferences on the problems of Turkish film history and historiography, how the advent of cinema was received by the Istanbul press and on the spectatorial experiences of the Istanbulites in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Interests
early cinema, Turkish popular cinema, film theory, storytelling, Japanese calligraphy (shodo), Islamic calligraphy
Publications and Exhibitions
https://sehir.academia.edu/NezihErdogan
editor (with Ebru Kayaalp) Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Forgetting the Archive, forthcoming from Amsterdam University Press 2022 “The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul, 1896-1928”, in Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? (eds) Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal and İpek Türeli , London, Routledge, 2010, 129-143. “Uzak” in 1001 Films You Must See before You Die (ed) Stephen Jay Schneider, New York: Barron’s, 2008 “The Bandit” The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East /24 Frames, (ed) Gönül Dönmez Colin, London: Wallflower Press, 2007 “Star Director as Symptom: Reflections on the Reception of Fatih Akın in the Turkish media” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film vol. 7, no: 1, August 2009, 27-38. “Hindistan Cevizi” Altyazı no: 86, July - Aug, 2009. “Çirkin Seyirci” Altyazı no: 82, March, 2009. “Kezban goes to Rome and then Paris: European Twists in the Turkish Family Plot” in Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context, (ed) Miyase Christensen and Nezih Erdoğan, New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 188-197. “Uzak” in 1001 Films You Must See before You Die (ed) Stephen Jay Schneider, New York: Barron’s, 2008. “The Bandit” The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East /24 Frames, (ed) Gönül Dönmez Colin, London: Wallflower Press, 2007. “Edebiyatımızda Sinema: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Ahmet Haşim ve Ziya Osman Saba”, Türk Filmi Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 5, 2006, 107-115. “The Making of our America : Hollywood in a Turkish Context”, in Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange, (eds) Richard Maltby & Melvyn Stokes, London: British Film Institute, 2005. “Vizontele: Türk Sinemasında Modernleşmenin Temsili” Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 4 Deniz Bayrakdar (ed) İstanbul, Bağlam Yayınları, 2004, 165-169. “Powerless Signs: Hybridity and the Logic of Excess of Turkish Trash” in Mapping the Margins: Identity Politics and the Media, (eds) Karen Ross, Deniz Derman, Cresskill, NJ, Campton, 2003. “Yeşilçam’da Sessiz Bedenler, Bedensiz Sesler”, Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 3 Deniz Bayrakdar (ed) İstanbul, Bağlam Yayınları, 2003, 107- 124. “Mute Bodies, Disembodies Voices: Notes on Sound in Turkish Popular Cinema”, Screen , vol: 43, no: 3 (Autumn, 2002, 233- 249. “Violent images: hybridity and excess in The Man who Saved the World ” in Mapping the Margins: Identity, Politics and the Media, (eds) Karen Ross, Deniz Derman, Creskill, NJ, Hampton, 2002. (with Dilek Kaya) “Institutional Intervention in the Distribution and Exhibition of Hollywood Films in Turkey”, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , vol. 22, no: 1, 2002, 47-59. (with Deniz Göktürk ), “Turkish Cinema” in Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film , Oliver Leaman (ed) Routledge, 2001, 533-573. “Perdeye Seyirci Kalmak ”, XXI Mimarlık Kültürü Dergisi, October , 2001. “Yeşilçam’in Hayaletleri ”, İletişim , no: 10, Summer, 2001, 251-256. (with Ugur Güdükbay and Fatih Erol ) “Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Digital Shadow Theatre” (artists’ statement) Leonardo vol 33, no: 4, August 2000, 264-265. “Veiled and Revealed” (review : Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism . London and New York: Cambridge UP, 1998) Postmodern Culture , vol 10, no: 2, January 2000. (with Uğur Güdükbay and Fatih Erol) “Tradition Offers Artistic Possibilities for New Media Technologies: an Animation System for Shadow Theatre” (conference proceeding) ISEA 2000, December, Paris, France, 7-12 December, 2000. “‘Turhan Bey’i Takdim Ederiz’” Geceyarısı Sineması no: 4, Bahar 1999, 37-45. “Narratives of Resistance: National Identity and Ambivalence in the Turkish Melodrama between 1965 and 1975” Screen vol 39, no: 3 Autumn 1998, 259-271. reprinted in Screening World Cinema (eds) Catherine Grant, Annette Kuhn London, New York: Routledge, 2006, 145-159. “Üç Seyirci : Popüler Eğlence Biçimlerinin Alımlanmasi Üzerine Notlar”, Doğu-Batı, no: 2, February–March-April, 1998. “Yeşilçam’da Beden ve Mekanın Eklemlenmesi Üzerine Notlar”, Doğu - Batı , no: 2, February -March-April, 1998, 155-162. “ ‘Gerçek’ ve Kodlari : TV’de Gizli Kamera Kullanımı Üzerine Notlar ”, Yeni Türkiye , no: 11, September-October, 1996, 166-168. “Sinema ve Psikanaliz“, Toplum ve Bilim, no: 70, Fall , 1996, pp. 241-249. “Ulusal Kimlik , Kolonyal Söylem ve Yeşilçam Melodramı ”, Toplum ve Bilim , no: 7, September, 1995, 178-196. “Das Neue türkische Kino”/“The new Turkish cinema” in Gebrochene Blick nach Westen : Positionen und Perspektiven türkischen Kultur , Zafer Senocak (ed) Berlin , Babel Verlag , 1994, 293-302. translation from the turkish by Deniz Göktürk . “Das Fernsehen in der Türkei ”/”Television in Turkey ” in Gebrochene Blick nach Westen : Positionen und Perspektiven türkischen Kultur , Zafer Senocak (ed) Berlin , Babel Verlag , 1994, 281-292. translation from the turkish by Walter Menzler . “Köpekbalığı ve Protez”, 25. Kare, January-February 1993, no: 3, pp. 10-12. “Nobelzede Bir Yazar”, Cumhuriyet Kitap, 1991. “Zihin-Araç-Bilgisayar”, Cumhuriyet Kitap, October 26, 1990. “Anlatı Geleneğinin Devamı”, Cumhuriyet Kitap, November 9, 1990. “Seyirci ve Gerilim”, Cumhuriyet Kitap, November 23, 1990. “Gerçekliğin Yeniden Sunumu”, Cumhuriyet Kitap, December 20, 1990. (with C. Taşçı , N. Karagülle) “Bilgisayar Eğitimi Üzerine Düşünceler ” (konferans tebliğ derlemesi ) Bilişim 1988 , Ankara , Türkiye Bilişim Derneği , 1988.
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editor (with Miyase Christensen) Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). Seyirci ve Sinema Ankara , Med-Campus-GISAM, 1994. (with/N. Avci , C. Tasçi , D. Derman , Ü.S. Köymen) Enformasyon Toplumu ve Egitim Sistemlerine Etkileri : Türk Eğitim Sistemi Açısından Yakın Geleceğin Degerlendirilmesi Ankara, Milli Egitim Bakanligi , 1992. Sinema Kitabı , Istanbul , Ağaç Yayıncılık , 1992. | books | editor (with Miyase Christensen) Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). Seyirci ve Sinema Ankara , Med-Campus-GISAM, 1994. (with/N. Avci , C. Tasçi , D. Derman , Ü.S. Köymen) Enformasyon Toplumu ve Egitim Sistemlerine Etkileri : Türk Eğitim Sistemi Açısından Yakın Geleceğin Degerlendirilmesi Ankara, Milli Egitim Bakanligi , 1992. Sinema Kitabı , Istanbul , Ağaç Yayıncılık , 1992. |