Abstract

"Discovering Traces of Istanbul's Economic History In 1960-1980 Turkish Cinema"

Ayşe Feyza Şahinkuşu, Yozgat Bozok University (aysefeyzasahinkusu@gmail.com)

The main purpose of this study is to use the art of cinema, which created a great visual archive in the twentieth century, instead of the written and printed archive sources used in economic historiography. Turkey met cinema in 1896 during the Ottoman Empire, and the first Turkish movie was shot by Fuat Uzkınay in 1914.
Different cinema schools emerged in Turkish cinema between 1960 and 1980. The 1960 military coup, the 1971 memorandum, and the 1980 military coup, as well as the political, economic, social, and social transformations experienced in this process, have a great role in the emergence of these cinema schools and untested cinema movements.
The research will discuss the films shot in Istanbul between the specified years. It's planned to present a general view of all economic indicators of the city of Istanbul.
The paper aims to make inferences through movies about different variables such as the income level of the people who live in Istanbul, Istanbul's immigration structure, employment conditions of the city, the demographic structure of the city, important residential areas in the city, places preferred for shopping in the Istanbul and structure of these places, transportation and health services in the city, production activities in city and İstanbul resident's consumption habits. The number of movies shot in Istanbul during the specified period is quite high. In the research, the films of as many directors as possible from different cinema genres will be discussed. For the sample to give a meaningful result, variables such as the movie type, the number of directors whose work was watched, and the release year of the movie will be taken into consideration. The fact that the research is pioneering and inspiring for similar studies is an important goal. The study will add a different vision to visual history research.