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Özselçuk, Evren

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“…Previous critics have noted that Ceylan’s earlier films like Small Town , Clouds of May and Distant are part of a provincial town trilogy (Daldal 2023; Özselçuk 2022). We claim that Ahlat Ağacı is part of a new Land of Ghosts trilogy of films starting with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep dealing with post-memory and a subtly implied critique of the AKP regime in Turkey.…”

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On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree)

Adak

Akser

2023

New Perspect. Turk.

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This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse to succumb to hegemonic codes of masculinity. Through this cinematic refusal by an anti-hero (Sinan), the film addresses the crisis of hegemonic masculinities in their interconnectedness to militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. Through Sinan’s quest for self-realization, the film signals not only the impotence and vanity of nationalist masculinities but also the caesuras and instabilities in national myths. As the last film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new Land of Ghosts trilogy, which started with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and Winter Sleep, Ahlat Ağacı seems to close the cycle with a final scene that bespeaks the possibility of unearthing lost others of national mythmaking, bringing fertility and hope to the lands in which collective amnesia reigns supreme.

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Section: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Trilogy: Once Upon a Time In Anatolia Wi...mentioning

confidence: 99%