Turkish Film Poster Exhibit and Film Screenings
Library
Turkısh Fılm Poster Exhıbıt
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University Cecil H. Green Library
South Portal
Lobby
3-14 October 2011
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University's Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Abbasi
Program in Islamic Studies, and the èצӰ Arts
Initiative will be showcasing Turkish Film Posters from the
collection of èצӰ Libraries and Academic Information
Resources. The exhibition will be held 3-14 October, 2011 in the
South Portal Lobby of Cecil H. Green Library.
The
exhibition will feature rare, yet highly sought-after, hand-drawn
film posters that date back to the early 1950s offering the best
examples of the Turkish film industry's golden years.
Turkish Film Poster Exhibit will highlight concepts such as foreign
adaptations and imitations, Western and Eastern influence and
representations of gender, minority, or majority, and as a result
will provide a base for discussion between Turkish cinema and other
cinemas. By providing visual print materials and scholarly
research, we expect to initiate further discussion on
interpretation of poster art as historical artifact and Turkish
cinema in general, and incorporating cinema in teaching of
humanities and social sciences in particular. The exhibit is
curated under the guidance of Burcu Karahan Richardson (Turkish
Language & Literature Lecturer, Department of Comparative
Literature) in
collaboration with John A. Eilts (Curator for
Islamic and Middle Eastern Collectionin èצӰ
University Libraries), and David Giovacchini (Bibliographer for the
Arts in the Islamic World inthe Islamic and Middle
Eastern Collection, èצӰ Library.)
Programming is partially made possible by the support of the
Turkish Cultural Foundation, èצӰ Division of Literatures,
Cultures and Languages, and èצӰ Center for Russian, East
European and Eurasian Studies. Turkish Pop Cinema (2005), a
documentary on popular Turkish films of 1960s and 1970s and Tarkan
vs. the Vikings (1971), a definite cult classic and an adaptation
of an extremely popular local comic book series by Burak Sezgin
will be screened on 12 October 2011 in Pigott Hall, Room 113 at
7:00 p.m. as part of the Turkish Film Poster Exhibition and Burcu
Karahan Richardson’s “COMPLIT 144/244A The
Interplay between Turkish Cinema and Literature.”
Q&A will follow.
The exhibition and films
screenings are free and open to the public.
For more
information contact Associate Director Burçak Keskin Kozat at
medstudies [at] stanford.edu (medstudies[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Turkısh Fılm
Screening
12 October 2011, 7:00 pm
Pigott
Hall Room 113 (450 Serra Mall)
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“Turkish Pop Cinema
Documentary”
7:00 pm
USA, 2005,
Unrated, 25 mins. (Turkish with English Subtitles)
Written, produced, and directed by Pete Tombs & Andy
Starke
Sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies
Forum
Synopsis:
Thedocumentaryserves as an introduction
toTurkish action, sex and fantasy films of 60’s
and 70’s. It presents footage from the films themselves
and contains several interviews withTurkish film legends
such as Yilmaz Atadeniz and Cüneyt Arkin, who starred in cult
classics like The Man Who Saved The World (Dünyayı Kurtaran
Adam.)
•
“Tarkan vs. The Vikings”
7:30 pm
Turkey, 1971, Unrated, 86 mins. (Turkish
with English Subtitles)
Directed by Mehmet Aslan -
Written by Sezgin Burak – Cast: Kartal Tibet, Fatma
Belgen, and Bilal İnci
Sponsored by the Mediterranean
Studies Forum
Tarkan, an adaptation of an
extremely popular local comic book series based on the adventures
of the eponymous hero, is considered similar to Robert E.
Howard’sConan. Written by Sezgin Burak, the
series lasted many years and inspired an entire series
ofTarkanfilms.Tarkanis a
classic loner hero raised by wolves, who roams the plains with his
faithful wolf, Kurt, is still closer to animals than to people. In
this movie Tarkan takes on a band of vicious Vikings, who take
great pleasure in sacrificing nubile maidens to a hungry
octopus!