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Screened and Reconstructed Urban Memory: Remembering and Forgetting İstanbul in [] Web TV Series

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This chapter attempts to explore the screened city of İstanbul in Şahsiyet [Persona] TV series with the aim of providing insights into new cultural meanings intertwined with the urban memory manufactured in web television series. Şahsiyet was first released in a digital media platform in 2018, and has recently become world-wide known after Haluk Bilginer, who acted Agâh, won the International Emmy Awards in 2019 for his performance in the series. Remembering and forgetting the places with visual representations of Agâh's mental processes to figure out a longveiled crime, the urban memory of İstanbul is reconstructed by means of a variety of representation techniques and spatial compositions, on which this study attempts to analyze. This analysis shows not only how the urban environments and their spatial qualities become the spine of the visual narrative, but also how the representation of city in TV series reconstructs the memory of places.

Keywords: Architecture and media ; Collective memory ; İstanbul ; Mapping of the urban memories ; Memory reconstruction ; Persona ; Remembering and Forgetting ; Representation of the city ; Screening Urban Environment ; streaming platforms ; The image of the city ; Urban Memory ; visual production ; Web TV Series ; Şahsiyet

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Screened and Reconstructed Urban Memory: Remembering and Forgetting İstanbul in Şahsiyet [Persona] Web TV Series
Intellect , 124 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389807_8
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