The popular perception of Byzantium in contemporary Turkish culture

Autor:	Koray Durak
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory Language and Linguistics
Zdroj:	Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 47:123-139
ISSN:	1749-625X 0307-0131
DOI:	10.1017/byz.2022.31
Popis:	The aim of this article is to present the sources available to the ordinary Turkish citizen for forming an opinion about Byzantium. These sources range from the written (school curricula to newspapers) to the visual (cinema to television), and I categorize them on the basis of a set of criteria such as accessibility, control over the audience, and intellectual depth. I aim to show how non-state actors have been laying the groundwork for a more informed perception of Byzantium. Movies, theatrical productions, and cartoons in humorous magazines satirizing the essentializing view of the Byzantine past through parody, are shown to play a deconstructive role in this process.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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