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Articles and Chapters by Barış Kılıçbay

Yeni Türkiye, Hakikatsiz Siyaset, Soylu Yalan, ed. Betül Yarar, 2018

This article offers a critical reading of a teleological tendency that informed and still exercis... more This article offers a critical reading of a teleological tendency that informed and still exercises a considerable influence on many analyses of Turkish-German cinema. These analytical tools define Turkish-German migrant cinema as a ‘cinema of duty’, which creates a stereotypical image of the Turk carrying a ‘burden of representation’, and seek to replace these narratives with those that ostensibly liberate Turkish Germans from this burden by celebrating instead the ‘pleasures of hybridity’. The author's intention in this article is to offer a more developed reading of these previously denigrated stereotypes and to argue that in their afterlives stereotypes of the guest worker represent much more than simple arrested images. All of this is related to a reading of Sülbiye Günar's 2002 film Karamuk, which has been ironically examined as one of the rare Turkish-German films to move away from the outdated stereotype of the Turkish guest worker. However, this article sets out to argue contrarily that the film stages the pliancy of the stereotype by stripping it from the Turk in order to observe its subtle reappearance in the unsuspecting German, and thus reveals novel performances of stereotypes that complicate categories of ethnicity and identity.

This article traces the growth of the 'fashion for veiling' which has grown in Turkey since the e... more This article traces the growth of the 'fashion for veiling' which has grown in Turkey since the early 1990s, and discusses the representation of Muslim women in both the cultural and public spheres in the late 1980s. The practice of veiling has been chosen to explore how religious iconography is changing to reflect new patterns of consumption and pleasure, and the ways in which these changes are occurring. The authors focus on the shifting meanings of the practice of veiling due to the articulation of Islamic faith into consumption culture, as evidenced in advertising images and commentaries taken from Islamic women's magazines, and fashion catalogues of major Islamic clothing companies. The authors examine the problematic relationship of the fashion for veiling to two other established meanings of veiling: as a sign of adherence to the Islamic principle of covering the female body to conceal it from the male gaze, and as a sign of 'political Islam'.

This article examines two recent Turkish-German films, Lola + Bilidikid (Kutlug Ataman) and Ausla... more This article examines two recent Turkish-German films, Lola + Bilidikid (Kutlug Ataman) and Auslandstournee (Ayşe Polat). Drawing on Butlerian theory of gender melancholy, this article explores the close relationship between transvestism, motherland and national identification. Reading the films as a revelation of the performative nature of gender and the heterosexual matrix, this article suggests that the ambiguous relationship of drag queens with the mother(land), their fathers and national identity, can be explained by the ungrievable lack that melancholy is built upon.

Books by Barış Kılıçbay

Papers by Barış Kılıçbay

Big Brother International: Formats, Critics and Publics, 2004

Queer cinema in Europe, 2008

... In Beddua/Curse,(OF Seden and M. Gülgen 1980), Ersoy is said to perform her own life story. .... more ... In Beddua/Curse,(OF Seden and M. Gülgen 1980), Ersoy is said to perform her own life story. ... 16. Literally:“Don't let the chestnut be scratched, ok?” 17. German title: Auslandstournee, a German-Turkish production by Ayşe Polat, 1999. 18. ...

İletişim: Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2004

... Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Çukurova Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Dokuz... more ... Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Çukurova Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayın ve Açık Erişim Sistemi; İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Açık Erişim ...

Communication Theory and Research, 2005

Big Brother international: formats, critics and …, 2004

Big Brother international: formats, critics and …, 2004

Yeni Türkiye, Hakikatsiz Siyaset, Soylu Yalan, ed. Betül Yarar, 2018

This article offers a critical reading of a teleological tendency that informed and still exercis... more This article offers a critical reading of a teleological tendency that informed and still exercises a considerable influence on many analyses of Turkish-German cinema. These analytical tools define Turkish-German migrant cinema as a ‘cinema of duty’, which creates a stereotypical image of the Turk carrying a ‘burden of representation’, and seek to replace these narratives with those that ostensibly liberate Turkish Germans from this burden by celebrating instead the ‘pleasures of hybridity’. The author's intention in this article is to offer a more developed reading of these previously denigrated stereotypes and to argue that in their afterlives stereotypes of the guest worker represent much more than simple arrested images. All of this is related to a reading of Sülbiye Günar's 2002 film Karamuk, which has been ironically examined as one of the rare Turkish-German films to move away from the outdated stereotype of the Turkish guest worker. However, this article sets out to argue contrarily that the film stages the pliancy of the stereotype by stripping it from the Turk in order to observe its subtle reappearance in the unsuspecting German, and thus reveals novel performances of stereotypes that complicate categories of ethnicity and identity.

This article traces the growth of the 'fashion for veiling' which has grown in Turkey since the e... more This article traces the growth of the 'fashion for veiling' which has grown in Turkey since the early 1990s, and discusses the representation of Muslim women in both the cultural and public spheres in the late 1980s. The practice of veiling has been chosen to explore how religious iconography is changing to reflect new patterns of consumption and pleasure, and the ways in which these changes are occurring. The authors focus on the shifting meanings of the practice of veiling due to the articulation of Islamic faith into consumption culture, as evidenced in advertising images and commentaries taken from Islamic women's magazines, and fashion catalogues of major Islamic clothing companies. The authors examine the problematic relationship of the fashion for veiling to two other established meanings of veiling: as a sign of adherence to the Islamic principle of covering the female body to conceal it from the male gaze, and as a sign of 'political Islam'.

This article examines two recent Turkish-German films, Lola + Bilidikid (Kutlug Ataman) and Ausla... more This article examines two recent Turkish-German films, Lola + Bilidikid (Kutlug Ataman) and Auslandstournee (Ayşe Polat). Drawing on Butlerian theory of gender melancholy, this article explores the close relationship between transvestism, motherland and national identification. Reading the films as a revelation of the performative nature of gender and the heterosexual matrix, this article suggests that the ambiguous relationship of drag queens with the mother(land), their fathers and national identity, can be explained by the ungrievable lack that melancholy is built upon.

Big Brother International: Formats, Critics and Publics, 2004

Queer cinema in Europe, 2008

... In Beddua/Curse,(OF Seden and M. Gülgen 1980), Ersoy is said to perform her own life story. .... more ... In Beddua/Curse,(OF Seden and M. Gülgen 1980), Ersoy is said to perform her own life story. ... 16. Literally:“Don't let the chestnut be scratched, ok?” 17. German title: Auslandstournee, a German-Turkish production by Ayşe Polat, 1999. 18. ...

İletişim: Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2004

... Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Çukurova Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Dokuz... more ... Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Çukurova Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Açık Erişim Sistemi; Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayın ve Açık Erişim Sistemi; İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Açık Erişim ...

Communication Theory and Research, 2005

Big Brother international: formats, critics and …, 2004

Big Brother international: formats, critics and …, 2004

... Gülseren (2001) “Televizyon Türlerinde Dönüşüm”, Ankara Üniversitesi Iletişim Fakültesi Yıllı... more ... Gülseren (2001) “Televizyon Türlerinde Dönüşüm”, Ankara Üniversitesi Iletişim Fakültesi Yıllık 1999: 229-253. ... Kılıçbay, Barış ve Mutlu Binark (2004) “Media Monkeys: Intertextuality, Fandom and Big Brother Turkey”, Big Brother International: Formats, Critics, and Publics içinde ...

New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2006

... Bili is like a child separated from his mother and trying to fill this loss by making Lola, h... more ... Bili is like a child separated from his mother and trying to fill this loss by making Lola, his melancholic other, a biological woman. Butler discusses Freudian melancholy in terms of a loss of homosexual objects and aims within a predominantly heterosexual culture. ...