Cosmopolitan imaginary: The reception of Turkish TV series among young audiences in urban, rural, and diasporic settings (Istanbul, Emirdağ, and Brussels)

IF 1.3 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

International Communication Gazette Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1177/17480485221151111

Fatma Orhan Tahralı, K. Smets, P. Meers

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Abstract

This study explores the reception of selected melodramas and their cosmopolitan imaginary, based on a large-scale qualitative study consisting of 79 in-depth interviews with young Turkish audiences across three locations: the metropolis Istanbul, the rural town of Emirdağ, and Brussels which has a large Turkish diasporic community. In the past two decades, melodramas representing the upper-class, elite, westernized lifestyles taking place in luxury residences in Istanbul's urban landscape occupy a central space in the Turkish series as an example of cosmopolitan imaginary in their representation and mode of production. The study reveals that the cosmopolitan imaginary of these TV series leads participants to negotiate Turkish modernity, westernized secular, upper-class lifestyles, Turkish values, religion, and identity issues in these settings and destabilizes a uniform and fixed understanding of their identity and imagined community.

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世界性想象:土耳其电视剧在城市、农村和散居地区(伊斯坦布尔、埃米尔达尔安和布鲁塞尔)的年轻观众中的接受情况

本研究基于一项大规模的定性研究，对三个地点的土耳其年轻观众进行了79次深入采访：大都市伊斯坦布尔、乡村小镇埃米尔达和拥有大量土耳其侨民社区的布鲁塞尔。在过去的二十年里，代表上层阶级、精英、西化生活方式的情节剧发生在伊斯坦布尔城市景观中的豪华住宅中，在土耳其系列中占据了中心空间，在其表现和制作模式中成为了世界性想象的一个例子。研究表明，这些电视剧的世界性想象导致参与者在这些环境中谈判土耳其现代性、西方化的世俗、上层生活方式、土耳其价值观、宗教和身份问题，并破坏了对他们的身份和想象社区的统一和固定理解。

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International Communication Gazette COMMUNICATION-

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4.40

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5.30%

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