CİNEMA – PSYCHIATRY SEMINARS
AKBANK SANAT & PSİKESİNEMA –PSİKEART
NOVEMBER 2019 – JUNE 2020
“LITERARY PROTAGONİSTS IN CINEMA”
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. M. Emin Önder
In this session, we will be discussing one of the most popular and ambitious titles concerning the interaction between literature and cinema, “Literary Protagonists in Cinema”, both by way of reading and watching.
Could literary protagonists be considered as characters? In fact, there is no such thing as a one-to-one correlation between character formation and the formation of literary protagonists. It could be argued that the formation of a character can be the subject of a novel by itself. On the other hand, the richness of detail found in novels; the streets where protagonists stroll; the nature that surrounds them; the positions that the network of relationships established in the novel propels them towards; occasionally, as in the case of “Crime and Punishment”, the protagonist finding himself motivated towards certain behaviours that he himself could not foresee; or like Mrs. Dalloway, as the author describes in unparalleled detail, experiencing agonizing pain without being able to figure out the reason, all demonstrate that what makes the protagonist a “protagonist” is the general narrative composition and structure of the novel. The circumstances of a protagonist in a novel might, for instance, symbolize the final residues of a century when knighthood was taking its leave, as depicted in Don Quixote, or reveal the real but overlooked fact of the relationship between crime, the state and powerful families, as portrayed in Puzo’s “Godfather”. And in the course of that narrative we might encounter a unique human being: like Carmen, Zebercet, Meryem, Osman, Jean-Baptiste, or Alex...
Passion and Jealousy
Carmen
Akbank Sanat
18 December 2019|18:30
Who Am I?
Anayurt Oteli
Akbank Sanat
15 January 2020|15:30
Those Living With Secrets
Gölgesizler
Akbank Sanat
12 February 2020|18:30
Does Scent Rejuvenate, Or Does It Subjugate?
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Akbank Sanat
11 March 2020|18:30
Rural Literature
Susuz Yaz
Akbank Sanat
15 April 2020|18:30
A Critical Perspective To Facilitate Understanding
A Clockwork Orange
Akbank Sanat
13 May 2020|18:30
A Window Opening Onto Another Culture
Mutluluk
Akbank Sanat
10 June 2020|18:30
Literary Protagonists In Cinema
November 2019 - June 2020