Intertextual Memory Montage and Popular Reflexivity: Star Archive and Masculine Disintegration in Paramparça (Shattered, 1985)

Tuna Kuzucan

doi:10.5195/cinej.2026.816

Intertextual Memory Montage and Popular Reflexivity: Star Archive and Masculine Disintegration in Paramparça (Shattered, 1985)

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Tuna Kuzucan Sinop University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-6104

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https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2026.816

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Yeşilçam, star memory, cinematic memory, intertextual memory montage, representations of masculinity

Abstract

This study examines Halit Refiğ’s Paramparça (Shattered, 1985) as a threshold text through which the cultural memory of Yeşilçam is reorganised. Employing close formal analysis, the study focuses on framing, editing, sound, performance, and flashback structures. The analysis demonstrates that the film’s flashbacks function not merely as narrative devices that explain the characters’ pasts. Rather, archival footage drawn from romantic films starring Tarık Akan and Gülşen Bubikoğlu in the 1970s reactivates star memory and transforms spectator memory into an active component of the narrative. To explain this intersection of cinematic memory, star archive, and fragmented temporality, the article proposes the concept of intertextual memory montage. By recirculating the cultural legacy of Yeşilçam, Paramparça simultaneously reveals the historical intersections and transformations of Turkish cinema.

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2026-06-28

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Kuzucan, T. (2026). Intertextual Memory Montage and Popular Reflexivity: Star Archive and Masculine Disintegration in Paramparça (Shattered, 1985). CINEJ Cinema Journal, 14(1), 855–908. https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2026.816

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