SİNEMA
Anthony Quinn
In Cacoyannis’s lens, Crete was not merely a setting. That barren plain, that coastline, that aged Greek village, all were externalizations of Zorba’s soul.
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16 articles
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Pandemic Literature: Against the Invisible Enemy
The roots of pandemic literature reach back to the plague-ridden hell of fourteenth-century Florence. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the Decameron (1353) in the very heart of that hell, or in its immediate aftermath.
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Does a Man Kill What He Loves?
Dive into VR wonders, exploring realms where reality and imagination intertwine. Thrills await in the virtual universe.
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Beyond Continents
In the early 1970s, Neşet Ertaş faced what he would later call the hardest decision of his life. His daughter Döne was gravely ill, and the medical options available in Türkiye were limited.
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The Floral Armchair
These had been the “dreams” Nesrin had nurtured before her parents’ separation. On the day she “saw her father standing there with a suitcase in his hand”, all those dreams “collapsed at once”. He said only: “Farewell”.
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The Antidepressant Industry
The rapid rise in antidepressant use in recent years deserves to be treated not only as a health issue but as a social one.
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A Defeated Lover
Fikriye is presented merely as a relative, a helper. Yet Fikriye was Mustafa Kemal’s past. The lost gardens of Salonica, the innocent afternoons of childhood. She was not a woman for the Pasha, she was a climate.
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In the Shadow of the Iron Cross
In the Age of Information, news media faces both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges.
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The Greatest Poet: Nazım Hikmet
Nazım Hikmet, the greatest poet of modern Turkish lyric poetry, is, with the new language and new understanding he brought to the art of poetry, the greatest revolutionary of verse.
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, anda Roman Italian
Cinema had barely been discovered before it got its hands on the cowboy film. For years, cowboys, who were in reality nothing more than cattle herders, were presented as flawless heroes, while the innocent and the oppressed, Native Americans above all, were cast without exception as the villains.Hürrem Erman A man came from Rome and, with just six films, changed the history of the American Western.
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