ReFocus: the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Refocus: the International Directors Series)

Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Provides thematical analysis of Ceylan's transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity of the text creating and maintaining a dialogue between chapters similar to the manner Ceylan's films maintain dialogue with each other Locates Ceylan's cinema within the context of the past and present social, cultural and political climate of Turkey with unprecedented political and sociological readings of specific films Offers textual reading of Ceylan's films from the point of view of feminist film theory Places Ceylan's oeuvre within the context of global cinema as a transnational author of realist cinema and slow cinema ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan brings together a cohort of expert scholars to analyse the films of Turkey's most renowned filmmaker. His self-reflexive films inspired by local incidents have reached global dimensions, and won awards at prestigious films festivals, including the Grand Prix, Best Director and Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. This collection highlights Ceylan's aesthetics, auteurism and unique position within the film industry of Turkey and contemporary global cinema while focusing on his transnational style of filmmaking that also favours intertextual exchanges between his films, but also with other landmark works, merging photography, painting, and literature.