Djinns of Post-millennial Turkish Horror Film: Gender Politics and Toxic Kinship in D@bbe and Siccin [Cüneyt Çakırlar] from turkish movies Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 14 min 40 sec ✓ Published: 17-Mar-2021
Description: The popularisation of the traditional and religious imagery in Turkish visual culture is symptomatic of the post-millennial politicization of Islam in Turkey following the electoral victory of Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party in 2002. The shift from militarist secularism to neoliberal Islam in Turkish politics unsettled the Kemalist foundations of Turkishness, and provoked anxiety and polarisation. Reflecting on this anxiety, this paper focuses on the post-millennial emergence of horror