Good Article Review About Kurdish Cinema As A Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, And Political Agency

In the past few years, Turkey has seen the emergence of Kurdish cinema as one of the significant discursive subjects. Kurdish cinema content has been redesigned and defined in a manner which is meant and aimed at unifying Kurdish cultural production in Diaspora (Kocer, 2014). In essence, the effort has been guided by the need to establish a dynamic framework for the production and subsequent reception of cinema content including films about and by the Kurds. The article or study presents three arguments based on the Kurdish cinema content and its redefinition especially in Turley and to those in Diaspora. First, the author analyzes and discusses how Kurdish cinema content has emerged and correspondingly become a national cinema in the transnational context in different countries (Kocer, 2014). Secondly, the article also analyzes and discusses how Kurdish cinema content has been nationalized in discourse. Lastly, the article discusses the communicative strategies and approaches that are employed in nationalizing Kurdish cinema.
The article establishes these three arguments in a logical manner by analyzing them from a historical perspective with respect to Turkish nationalism. Furthermore, the article also establishes insight from the context of modern politics in the country especially considering the government’s discourses and related policies about the Kurds (Kocer, 2014). The article develops empirical data and information about Kurdish cinema and related aspects from ethnographic studies conducted in Europe and Turkey between 2009 and 2012 (Kocer, 2014). For instance, the paper discusses how Zare, an American-produced film about Kurdish village lives was retrieved from American archives to the roots of Kurdish cinema. Furthermore, it discusses how the Kurdish language is used as a political agent and sign of cultural resiliency.

References

Kocer, S., (2014). Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.