Murat Akser

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  Article: Memory, Identity and Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive

  Murat Akser
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  ABSTRACT: This is a reading of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive through psychoanalytic approach of Lacan from the perspective of formation of fantasy and shifting identities. Lynch constructs his films consciously choosing his themes from the sub(versive/conscious) side of human mind. Mulholland Drive has been analyzed several times from different approaches ranging from gender (Love, 2004) to narratology (Lentzner, 2005; Mc-Gowan, 2004; Cook, 2011). This detailed textual analysis intends to rationalize Lynch's narrative structure through Lacanian terms in reference to Zizekian terminology.
  Cinej. 11/2012; 2(1):58-76.
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  Article: Media and Democracy in Turkey: Toward a Model of Neoliberal Media Autocracy

  Murat Akser, Banu Baybars-Hawks
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  ABSTRACT: This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom has increased in volume annually since 2007; this includes pressure on the Doğan Media Group, the YouTube ban, arrests of journalists in the Ergenekon trials, phone tapping/ taping of political figures and the exclusion of all unfriendly reporters from political circles. The levels and tools of this autocracy eventually lead to certain conclusions about the qualities of this media environment: it is a historically conservative, redistributive, panoptic and discriminatory media autocracy.
  Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11/2012; 5(3):302 - 321.
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  Article: Return to Reality: Towards A More Tactile Cognition of Film Theory

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  ABSTRACT: Film theory has lost itself in the woods among debates of the mind and the senses. There are those who are interested in a more tactile sense of the real in film studies. This issue of CINEJ focuses on the documentary truth and how it aims to present us a real and a better world.
  CINEJ Cinema Journal. 05/2012; 1(2):1-2.
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  Article: Reinvigorating Film Studies: An Immodest Proposal

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  ABSTRACT: CINEJ Cinema Journal is a newcomer to the field of film studies. It is committed to publishing fresh and original research in the fields of film and media studies. The need for such a journal is result of emergence of fresh perspectives in film studies and the absence of an outlet to incorporate such ideals.
  CINEJ Cinema Journal. 10/2011; 1(1):1-4.
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  Chapter: Cyberterror A La Turca

  Murat Akser, Banu Baybars-Hawks
  01/2011: pages 100-110; , ISBN: 978-1-4438-3162-8