Mikail Boz
Sinema araştırmaları, sanat, sanat felsefesi ve sosyolojisi üzerine çalışmalar yürüten akademisyenim.
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The relationship between mythography and cinema are analyzed within a specific film text in this study. Profound Desires of the Gods (Kamigami no fukaki yokubô), which was directed by Shohei Imamura and released in 1968, explicitly addresses to the Japanese creation myth. While the incidents experienced by the Futori family due to various crimes and the violations of taboos are handled in the forefront, concerns and fears about Japanese modernization are mentioned in the background. In this context, qualitative, structuralist mythographic analysis is made about this film in terms of the concepts of myth, taboo, violation, and modernization. In this film, which is analyzed under the conceptual opposites and titles such as nature/culture, taboo/violation, civilized/uncivilized, traditional/modern with the method of binary oppositions explained by Levi-Strauss, it is seen that the Japanese creation myth is tried to be revived, and the longing to traditional Japan against modern one emerge as a prominent discourse. It is determined that a modernization perspective without modernity becomes a prominent discourse in the film.
Keywords: Cartesian philosophy, subject, suspicion, paranoia, Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049
The relationship between mythography and cinema are analyzed within a specific film text in this study. Profound Desires of the Gods (Kamigami no fukaki yokubô), which was directed by Shohei Imamura and released in 1968, explicitly addresses to the Japanese creation myth. While the incidents experienced by the Futori family due to various crimes and the violations of taboos are handled in the forefront, concerns and fears about Japanese modernization are mentioned in the background. In this context, qualitative, structuralist mythographic analysis is made about this film in terms of the concepts of myth, taboo, violation, and modernization. In this film, which is analyzed under the conceptual opposites and titles such as nature/culture, taboo/violation, civilized/uncivilized, traditional/modern with the method of binary oppositions explained by Levi-Strauss, it is seen that the Japanese creation myth is tried to be revived, and the longing to traditional Japan against modern one emerge as a prominent discourse. It is determined that a modernization perspective without modernity becomes a prominent discourse in the film.
Keywords: Cartesian philosophy, subject, suspicion, paranoia, Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049
Anahtar Kelimeler: Serenity, Ütopya, Distopya, Durağanlık, Sinema
Even though the desire to find an ideal, social and political order extends to the earliest histories of mankind, many social movements have emerged to realize utopian desire that made it possible by journey of exploration, industrialization, and modernization. Utopian works, especially Thomas More's classic work "Utopia" (1516) presented a principle of hope that there could be a different world, proposing a radical differentiation from the limits of present time. However, this radically different claim has also become the fear of utopia. Dystopias have emerged as counter-utopias in the twentieth century as systematic pressure on society, authoritarianism, or the transformation of utopias, became being uncontrollably restructured and frightening. Thus utopia as the ethic of difference has gathered meaning as a fear of stability. One typical example of this is Joss Whedon's Serenity (2005). The film is critisized with mythical analysis of Darko Suvin's method, it presents the utopia as a stabilization and approaches will of novelty doubtfully. Thus, the film emphasizes the return of the mythos instead of the avoidance, and makes the existing system and its conflicts more desirable.
Keywords: Serenity, Utopia, Distopia, Stability, Cinema