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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 233 |
| Pages (from-to) | 5-29 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | CINEJ Cinema Journal |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 21 Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- women
- cinema
- film studies
- Turkey
- Islam
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Murat Akser
- School of Communication and Media - Senior Lecturer in Screen Production
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - Senior Lecturer
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