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- Title
Halit Refiğ's I Lost My Heart to a Turk: Woman, Islam and Modernity in Turkish Cinema.
- Authors
Akser, Murat
- Abstract
Defined by some critics as the ultimate national cinema movement piece, Halit Refiğ's I Lost My Heart to a Turk (1969), the love story of a German woman and a Turkish worker in the ancient town of Kayseri becomes an allegory for the Turkish nation's identity crisis. This paper identifies the parameters used by Refiğ to position the Turkish identity in his film and emphasize the special role of women in Turkish modernization.
- Subjects
TURKEY; MODERNITY in motion pictures; MOTION pictures; ISLAM in motion pictures; ALLEGORY in motion pictures; IDENTITY crises (Psychology)
- Publication
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2018, Vol 7, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
2159-2411
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5195/cinej.2018.223