L'empire entre mémoire et rêve, le monde ottoman sur les écrans contemporains

The success of popular contemporary Turkish audio-visual series in recalling the Ottoman past, is widely understood in terms of soft power, with a special focus on former Ottoman territories. The deeply heterogenous nature of these productions, and their temporal and spatial analysis leads to a subt...

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Main Author: Thomas Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2020-12-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/15330
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Summary:The success of popular contemporary Turkish audio-visual series in recalling the Ottoman past, is widely understood in terms of soft power, with a special focus on former Ottoman territories. The deeply heterogenous nature of these productions, and their temporal and spatial analysis leads to a subtle revision of this understanding, placing these films and series, in a context of competitive audio-visual globalization, somewhere between exoticism, political appropriation and state political projections seeking to spin a narrative of a fantasized rather than historical empire.
ISSN:0997-1327
2105-2271