For Those Who Seek Mastery and Personality, by Halit Refiğ

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2017.161

Keywords:

nationalism, national cinema, cultural identity, Turkish cinema

Abstract

Halit Refiğ had impact on Turkish national cinema both as a thinker and practitioner. He worked his way up from the 1950s as a film critic and became a film director practicing until the day he died. He also worked along with other directors like Metin Erksan, Lütfi Akad, Memduh Un, Duygu Sagiroglu. Ertem Görec, Nedim Otyam, Ilhan Arakon at Mimar Sinan University’s Turkish Film Institute, the first cinema training department at a University for 25 years training generations of film directors.  This excerpt is from a 1968 film magazine essay.

Author Biography

Murat Akser, University of Ulster

Murat Akser is lecturer in cinematic arts, in the School of Creative Arts, University of Ulster, UK. Between 2006-2013 he has been an associate professor of cinema and media studies, chair of new media department and the founding director of the Cinema and Television MA program at Kadir Has University Istanbul, Turkey. He has his MA in Film and PhD in communication and culture from York University, Canada. He works extensively on political economy of film festivals, film genres and has recently published a book length study of Turkish cinema from Lambert: Green Pine Resurrected: Film Genre, Parody, and Intertextuality in Turkish Cinema. Also an independent filmmaker Dr. Akser has directed short films, music videos and is a member of International Cinematographers Guild and Academy of Canadian Film and Television.

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2017-09-14

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Akser, M. (2017). For Those Who Seek Mastery and Personality, by Halit Refiğ. CINEJ Cinema Journal, 6(1), 119–134. https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2017.161

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): Spring 2017

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