Zeynep Gültekin Akçay (Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Dept. of Radio, Television and Cinema / FMSP): “Remembering the Cinema Experience of 1950s to 1970s in Sivas”
June 10, 2025
4 pm
Campus Westend, IG 1.414
With its many functions that allow people to watch movies, then socialize, see others and be visible, cinema is both affected by and affects society. In this respect, movie theaters, which are public spaces and ‘urban discovery’, are important in tracing the memory of an urban area with their heterotopic and chronotopic structures. Cinema is a spectrum of remembrance that expands temporal and spatial spaces. Cinema, as an urban routine, is a micro dynamic and field of experience of new cultural and social practices in the early twentieth century. The main claim of this project, which researches cinema experiences in the cultural memory of Sivas, is that cinemas, which are the micro-dynamics and experience areas of social practices, have an undeniable place in the cultural memory of the city. In light of this claim, it is aimed to give voice to the city’s memories of cinema, which have never been written down before and are inevitably fading away, and to reveal the role of the venues where movie were screened in the daily lives of moviegoers, based on the social, historical and cultural contexts of the city between 1950-1980.
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