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Due storie che si intrecciano. Una città: la meravigliosa Istanbul. Rossa all'alba e al tramonto, con le sue meravigliose cupole bianche e blu, i palazzi gioiello, le moschee, le candele, i bazar colorati, i profumi delle spezie, il... more
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      Ferzan OzpetekTurchiaMedio OrienteRecensioni Libri
A Massimo, per i nostri sette anni insieme, per quella parte di te che non potrò mai avere, per tutte le volte che mi hai detto non posso e per tutte le volte che mi hai detto ritornerò. Sempre in attesa, posso chiamare la mia pazienza... more
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      Queer TheoryItalian CinemaFerzan OzpetekTeoria Queer
Tutti i saggi pubblicati sono stati sottoposti a un processo di peer review del tutto anonimo (double blind), ad opera di due referee esterni alla rivista, specialisti del tema trattato ed appartenenti a istituzioni diverse da quelle... more
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      The Body in FilmItalian StudiesSoundtrack StudiesFilm Music And Sound
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      Food HistoryHistory of FoodFerzan OzpetekItalian Food
In the present article, I wish to concentrate on what may be called “transgressive border-crossings” engaged in by the protagonists of Ferzan Özpetek’s Hamam in two poignant instances of “hamam spying”, which – though effected in... more
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      HistoryThird SpaceBisexualityOrientalism
Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization – from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex... more
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      SociologyGeographyNutrition and DieteticsFood History
Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization – from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex... more
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      SociologyGeographyNutrition and DieteticsFood History
I am trying to explain that there is no relation between Turkish culture with homosexuality and masculinty and the culture of Ottoman empire can be a good example for that. It is related to events that occured in the old history. The... more
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      TurkeyOttoman EmpireHomosexualityFerzan Ozpetek
ABSTRACT Cinema as a means of communication reveals the change and transformation of the society being in a mutual relationship with the society itself. Having emerged since the mid-1990s and been acknowledged in the film festivals held... more
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      MulticulturalismIndividualityImmigrationDesire
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      Queer StudiesQueer TheoryItalian CinemaFerzan Ozpetek
In Hamam (1997) and The Ignorant Fairies (2001), Turkish-Italian director Fernan Özpetek places a bisexual/bicultural game at the centre of the diegetic space. Three characters whose emotions are in flux become psychologically intimate in... more
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      Game TheoryQueer TheoryEnvironmental SustainabilityBisexuality
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      Film StudiesFilm TheoryFilm AnalysisPhilosophy of Film
In the present article, I wish to concentrate on what may be called “transgressive border-crossings” engaged in by the protagonists of Ferzan Özpetek’s Hamam in two poignant instances of “hamam spying”, which – though effected in... more
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      Third SpaceBisexualityOrientalismBorders and Frontiers
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      Art and Independent CinemaFerzan Ozpetek
This paper is concerned with the way in which the form of the film synopsis reifies both the film itself and the processes at work in its production, distribution and recognition. In line with recent Lacanian film theory (inter alia,... more
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      Film StudiesFilm TheoryTheodor AdornoIdeology
Sinemada kentler, filmin öyküsünün geçtiği arka fon olmaktan çok öte bir konuma sahiptir. Kent, filmde duygu ve atmosfer yaratmak için kullanılan önemli araçlar arasında yer almaktadır. Sinemasal evrende öyküye anlam katan ve atmosferi... more
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      SinemaFerzan Ozpetek
Nel 1928 lo scrittore agrigentino scrive il “Film-Novelle”, "Sex Personen suchen einen Autor", una sceneggiatura in tedesco a due mani con Adolf Lantz, Pirandello racconta l’antefatto al dramma dei "Sei personaggi": l’incontro delle... more
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      Literature and cinemaCinemaLuigi PirandelloMitology
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      Italian StudiesGiorgio AgambenItalian CinemaFerzan Ozpetek
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      Gender StudiesItalian CinemaFerzan OzpetekLaura Mulvey
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      Turkish CinemaIstanbulFerzan OzpetekFatih Akın
Bu kitaptaki metinler sinema ve televizyon tarihinin kronolojik sırasına göre dizinleme yapılmıştır. İlk metin Levent Berber’in hazırladığı dışavurumcu sinemanın önemli yönetmenlerinden biri olan Fritz Lang’in M – Bir Şehir Katilini... more
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      Auteur StudiesFritz LangLuis BuñuelPedro Almodóvar
from: Representing Italy through Food. Eds. Elgin K. Eckert, Peter Naccarato and Zachary Nowak.  London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
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      Italian StudiesItalian CinemaFood StudiesFerzan Ozpetek
When the film Hamam was screened in Turkey, there was a great outcry claiming that this was a totally distorting, orientalizing, and wholly untrue account of what goes on in a traditional Turkish bath. Reading any tourist guide, one... more
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      Cruising SexGay And Lesbian StudiesTurkish and Middle East StudiesFerzan Ozpetek
This essay explores the potential for both transcultural thinking and methodological diversity in translation studies through a discussion of three twentieth-century Turkish cultural figures: national leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,... more
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureTranslation StudiesItalian Studies
" Building Up Steam: Gaze, Gateways, and Gays in Ferzan Özpetek's Hamam " After the scandal caused by Özpetek's 1997 directorial debut Hamam, the then Turkish Minister for Culture withdrew the film from competition for Turkey's entry... more
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      ArchitectureLiminal States: Altered Representation of SpaceIstanbulLiminal Space
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      Game TheoryQueer TheoryGender and SexualityEnvironmental Sustainability
Ferzan Özpetek’s films are known for overtly breaching the subject of queer identities in Italian mainstream cinema. Popular music, however, often complicates the inclusive representations claimed by films in which queer and other... more
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      Film Music And SoundCinematic SpaceItalian CinemaAnalysis of Film Music