UNDERSTANDING THE CHANGE IN SOCIAL ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN THE LIGHT OF TURKISH CINEMA
Project no. 814 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
There is need for new approaches, methods and resources to ease the process of observing and learning about management and organizations generally and universities, their social roles, managerial and organizational forms spesifically, as they have abstract qualities in nature. Due to the capacity of re-reading and reproducing reality, cinema enables us to read and transfer many social life-related concepts in an in-depth manner. The reflections of university on Turkish cinema, as an important institution, is analyzed by taking historical context conditions into account. The films are thematically analyzed, whereas two case studies are also conducted to have an in-depth insight. As a result of the film analyses, it is found out that the change in university system due to global factors has had great impact on social memory and has been reflected in Turkish cinema.