Resur(e)recting a Spectacular Hero:Diriliş Ertuğrul, Necropolitics, and Popular Culture in Turkey
| Autor: | Josh Carney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
History Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Spectacle Media studies Popular culture 050801 communication & media studies 0506 political science Power (social and political) Entertainment Politics 0508 media and communications State (polity) 050602 political science & public administration HERO Drama media_common |
| Zdroj: | Review of Middle East Studies. 52:93-114 |
| ISSN: | 2329-3225 2151-3481 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/rms.2018.6 |
| Popis: | The hugely popular proto-Ottoman television serialResurrection Ertuğrul(Diriliş Ertuğrul, 2014–) is the culmination of a series of attempts by Turkish government broadcaster TRT to produce a historical drama in line with the values of the governing AKP. Far from being confined to the television screen,Resurrectionis called upon by the government for multiple extra-textual engagements with the public. This essay traces some of the ways in which the serial has been used instrumentally by the AKP, blurring traditional distinctions between entertainment and official (state sanctioned) history, and intervening in political discourse. It first introduces the notion of prescriptive activation to describe the extra-textual use of media texts by those in power for political ends. Next, it examines the trappings of death that surround Resurrection, suggesting that the serial partakes in a representational necropolitics that fetishizes death for the nation. Finally, it explores the stakes of such representation, turning to a case in which text-inspired and literal necropolitics converge. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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