Turkish Cinema and Television Industry in the Digital Streaming Era addresses three main comprehensions: aesthetic transformation in the Turkish Cinema and television industry, new authors and changing filmmaking ways in the Turkish Cinema's SVOD age, and Turkish originals on national and international SVODs. The book is a collection of contemporary studies and research to explore the current scene in the Turkish Cinema and television industry's ways of production, features of the contents, and structures of the SVOD catalogs. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topics and studies, including production and post-production, independent and arthouse filmmaking, immersive sound, local narratives, digital watching experiences, quality tv, digital auteurism, and participatory culture, the collection of chapters is designed in a specific structure for academics, researchers, scholars, students, and media professionals.
About the Author: Tuna Tetik is an assistant professor in the Film and Television Department at Bahçeşehir University. Tetik received his doctoral degree at Bahçeşehir University, Cinema and Media Research program, and directed short films and a documentary that received international awards. His research interests are superheroes, comics, transmedia, film genres, video-on-demand services, and video games. He is currently teaching several courses on digital editing, screenwriting, and film production.
Deniz Gürgen Atalay is an assistant professor in the Film and Television Department at Bahçeşehir University. She received her doctoral degree at Cinema and Media Research program with her dissertation on popular cinema and historiography. She is the author of the book, focusing on historiography of the World War II in the contemporary American Cinema. Her research interests are film theory, popular culture, and gender studies.
Nilay Ulusoy is a professor and the head of the Film and Television Department at Bahçeşehir University. Ulusoy finished Marmara University's Communication Sciences Master's Program in 2000 and her doctoral studies in 2006. In the same year, she conducted research at the National Center of Cinematography and the Moving Image (CNC) in Paris with a scholarship from the French Institute of Istanbul. She teaches courses on the history of narrative film (M.A. level), film theory, visual culture, and Turkish cinema (Ph.D. level). Her research interests include the language of fashion and Turkish cinema history.