Josh Carney, (Communication and Culture, Indiana University)
THE VALLEY IN TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS:
KURTLAR VADISI AND THE IMAGING OF CONFLICT
Friday February 25th, 2011, 2:00 – 3:30 pm,
at CAHI, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Atwater and Ballantine)
Since the start of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in late December of 2008, Turkish/Israeli relations have seen a steep decline. While this trend has much to do with concrete policies and governmental actions on both sides, the Turkish television and film franchise Kurtlar Vardisi (Valley of the Wolves) has played an unusually large role in the conflicts that have emerged. This presentation explores some of the texts from this franchise in light of DeLuca and Peeples' (2002) notion of “imagefare” in the era of the public sphere, suggesting that a central strategy of the imagefare they wage is a unique form of metapicture (WJT Mitchell, 1995) that blends fact and fiction in a particularly potent combination.
Questions: contact Jon Simons, simonsj@indiana.edu
Jon Simons, Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
800 E. Third St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
USA
Phone: 812 856 0896
Editorial board member: Culture, Theory & Critique
Co-editor (with Simon Tormey) of Manchester University Press book series, Reappraising the Political
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