THE POLITICS OF THE DEAD BODY: ABJECT ENCOUNTERS IN “ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA"
Journal Title: Karadeniz İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
This study researches the functions of a dead body in Once Upon a Time in Anatoliain which the presence of a dead body is a prominent element. In the film, throughout a night and day, a group of men set out in search of a corpse in the Anatolian steppes for a murder investigation. The presence of a corpse gives an opportunity for the reviewing of crime, law, good and evil with respect to the fragility of identity, law and order. In this way, it can be considered a construction of feelings about death and a dead body both on a socio-cultural and an individual basis. Concordantly, apropos the function and the meaning of the corpse, the study follows Julia Kristeva’sconcept of abject conceptualized in her workPowers of Horror(1982: 4) as some thing which ‘disturbs identity, system and order and does not respect borders, positions and rules as in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’. By means of Kristeva's conceptualization of the abject, it is tried to find out the potential of Once upon a time in Anatolia to put crime and evil in a moral ambivalent place that destabilizes subject in a corporeal world that death is infected and to draw attention to the fragility of the symbolic order.
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Sibel KABA
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THE POLITICS OF THE DEAD BODY: ABJECT ENCOUNTERS IN “ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA"
This study researches the functions of a dead body in Once Upon a Time in Anatoliain which the presence of a dead body is a prominent element. In the film, throughout a night and day, a group...