“Get to know the inspiring life and award-winning films of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an iconic figure in the Turkish film industry. His work has transcended boundaries and revolutionized the art of filmmaking.
Through his captivating portrayals of the human experience, Ceylan's films have become a beacon of innovation. They inspire and influence aspiring filmmakers all over the world. His artistry is a testament to the power of storytelling. His legacy lives on in every frame of his masterpieces.”

• By Adam Good
• Published on November 8, 2023)
• in English
• 102 pages

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“The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan brings together a cohort of expert scholars to analyse the films of Turkey’s most renowned filmmaker. His self-reflexive films inspired by local incidents have reached global dimensions, and won awards at prestigious films festivals, including the Grand Prix, Best Director and Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. This collection highlights Ceylan’s aesthetics, auteurism and unique position within the film industry of Turkey and contemporary global cinema while focusing on his transnational style of filmmaking that also favours intertextual exchanges between his films, but also with other landmark works, merging photography, painting, and literature.”

• By Gönül Dönmez-Colin
• Published by Edinburgh University Press (Sept. 14, 2023)
• in English
• Hardcover, 256 pages
• 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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“Nuri Bilge Ceylan sineması üzerine birçok araştırma kaleme alındı. Bu araştırmayı özel kılan ise, Ceylan’ın kendine özgü olarak görülen ve teknik açıdan temellendirilmesi pek mümkün olmayan ‘oyuncu yönetimi’ gibi zor ve çelişkili bir alana girmesidir. ‘Oyuncu Yönetimi’ üzerine el yordamıyla çözümler üretmeye çalışanlar için bu kaynak kitabın, alanında bir ilk olduğunu da vurgulamak gerekir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan gibi bir yönetmeni, dünya sinemasında edindiği konumdan dolayı eleştirmekten kaçınan bir yaklaşımdan ziyade, objektif ve kuramsal bir zeminde yönetmenin filmlerindeki oyunculukların irdelenmiş olmasını ve eleştirel bir perspektiften bakılarak yeni tartışmaların açıldığını görmek beni son derece heyecanlandırdı. Eminim bu kitaptan istifade edecek olan yönetmen adayları, yönetmenler, oyuncular, akademisyenler ve öğrenciler ‘oyuncu yönetimi’ konusunda kafalarındaki soru işaretlerine uygun cevaplar bulacaklardır.” Akın Aksu

• By Shyqri Caushaj
• Published by Mitos Boyut Yayınları (29 Mayıs 2023)
• in Turkish
• Softcover, 240 pages
• 14x21.5 cm.

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Nuri Bilge Ceylan’ın Üç Maymun,Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da ve Ahlat Ağacı Filmlerinin Etik Eleştirisi:
Sanatta ve sinemada etik ve estetik değerler ilişkisinden yola çıkan bu çalışmada, yeni Türk sineması olarak da adlandırılan, 2000’ler Türk sinemasında ele alınan ahlaki değerlerin film estetiğini ne şekilde etkilediği araştırılmaktadır. Günümüz Türk sinemasında gösterilen insan ilişkilerinde ortaya konulan ahlaki değerlerin ne gibi biçimsel nitelikler dolayısıyla ele alındığı tarihsel süreçler ve toplumsal olaylarla bağlantılı olarak incelenmiştir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan sinemasının bu dönem Türk sinemasında etik ve estetik değerler ilişkisini görmek açısından önemli bir yere sahip olduğu düşünülmektedir. Bu anlamda onun sinemasına ve filmlerine ayrıca yer verilmektedir.

• By Fatma Serdaroğlu
• Published by Doruk Yayınları (1 August 2022)
• in Turkish
• Softcover, 400 pages
• 13.5x21 cm.,

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As images and as image-makers:
"In this intelligent analysis of Turkish and Iranian cinemas the author highlights the role of women both as objects and as creative forces. She provides a close reading of the genre and raises a series of intriguing questions and observations. The book is a noteworthy achievement as well as a stimulating read. Anyone interested in Middle Eastern culture and society will find Dönmez-Colin’s ideas on the topic rewarding." -
(Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA)
"A book to wander within as one would within a miniature painting, to circle around, to reflect upon, to celebrate, to question our notions of the image in this age of net-series -a book of revelations by one of the most insightful & compassionate writers on cinema I know: Gönül Dönmez-Colin" -
(Anup Singh, Film-maker)
"A comprehensive study of the presence and absence of women, this timely, informative, and well-researched work offers insights into the construction, evolution, and transformation of images of women on screen, as well as their cultural meanings and sociopolitical significance, discussing in depth a wide range of issues related to women and gender identity and the role of the women filmmakers who have offered new perspectives on them. With its wide historical and critical scope, an invaluable and essential source for readers interested in the representation of women and gender identity in the cinemas of Iran and Turkey."
(Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Coauthor, Abbas Kiarostami)

• By Gönül Dönmez-Colin
• Published by Routledge (March, 2021)
• in English
• Softcover, 346 pages
• 15.6x23.45 cm.,

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Décadent Filmlerin Felsefi Elestirisi:
Türkiye'de "sanat sineması" kategorisinde yer alan felsefi tonlu filmlerde dekadans başat düsünsel eğilimdir. Ülkemizdeki décadent eğilimlere karşi eleştirel yaklaşimların geliştirilmesi için mütevazi bir adımın ifadesi olan bu kitap sinema çalişmaları alanındaki konformist eğilimlere karşı cüretli bir meydan okuma çabasının ürünüdür.

• By Eşref Akmeşe
• Published by Literatürk Academia (January, 2020)
• in Turkish
• Softcover, 168 pages
• 13.5x21.5 cm.,

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Türkiyeli Bir Sinemacının Küresel Hayal Gücü:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, sinemaseverler kadar eleştirmenlerin de övgüsünü alan filmleriyle uluslararası başarı kazandı ve yirmi birinci yüzyılın en özgün ve provokatif sinemacılarından biri olarak kendini kabul ettirdi. Buna rağmen film ve medya araştırmacılarının Ceylan'ın filmlerinin kendine has üslubunu, havasını ve temalarını keşfetme girişimleri sınırlı kaldı, Ceylan sinemasının temaları henüz kapsamlı bir sosyolojik ve eleştirel düşüncenin konusu olmadı.
Üç yazar, tartışmacı bir diyalog içinde birlikte yazdıkları kitapta buna girişiyorlar: Ceylan'ın filmlerine ayırt edici özelliğini veren "diyalektik etkileşim anları"nı pekiştirmeye çalışıyorlar. Ceylan sinemasında süreklilik gösteren beş temel temanın izini takip ediyorlar: yersiz yurtsuzluk, nostalji, göç ve yer değiştirme gibi tikel zaman ve mekân biçimlenimleri; süregiden bir hiçlik ve yokluk duygusu; yas, melankoli ve can sıkıntısı; metropoliten modernlik; ulusötesilik. Böylece Ceylan sinemasını filizlenmekte olan bir "Yeni Türk Sineması" bağlamında ele almak yerine, bu filmleri klasik Avrupa (özellikle Fransız, Alman ve Rus) düşüncesi, edebiyatı ve filmleriyle desteklenen ulusötesi bir bağlama yerleştiriyorlar.

• By Craig Hammond, Bülent Diken, Graeme Gilloch
• Published by Metis Yayıncılık (May, 2018)
• in Turkish (İngilizce orijinalinden çeviren: Ahmet Nüvit Bingöl)
• Softcover, 216 pages
• 13x19.5 cm.,

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The Global Vision of a Turkish Filmmaker:
Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the "New Turkish Cinema" have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director, and producer of 21st century cinema.
In an age where Turkey's modernization has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan's films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of "nostalgia" understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan's work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow and uncompromising in their pessimistic outlook. (International Library of the Moving Image)

• By Craig Hammond, Bülent Diken, Graeme Gilloch
• Published by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (February 28, 2018)
• in English
• Hardcover, 240 pages
• 5.4 x 1 x 8.5 inches, 1.7 pounds

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Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socioeconomic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.
In analysis of and personal interviews with Dervis Zaim, Zeki Demirkubuz, Semih Kaplanoglu, Çagan Irmak, Tolga Örnek, and Palme d'Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Raw draws connections with Turkish theater, art, sculpture, literature, poetry, philosophy, and international cinema. A native of England and a twenty-five-year resident of Turkey, Raw interleaves his film discussion with thoughtful commentary on nationalism, gender, personal identity, and cultural pluralism.

• By Laurence Raw
• Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
• in English
• Hardcover, 232 pages
• 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches, 1.3 pounds

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Filmmakers and Identities between Urban and Rural Space:
The book presents a critical assessment of the last twenty years of the "New Turkish Auteur Cinema" by comparing the so-called "third generation", the directors born in the early '60s, to a fourth generation of directors, born in the '70s and '80s, who, in the great majority, made their debut in the last decade. As such, this study represents the most up-to-date English language book on Turkish cinema.

• By Giovanni Ottone
• Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
• in English
• Hardback, 123 pages

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Filmmakers and Identities between Urban and Rural Space:
This is the first book in English exclusively devoted to the long take, one of the key elements of film style. Increasingly visible in contemporary international media, the long take currently attracts a good deal of attention in criticism and commentary. There are also significant strands of film theory in which duration has become a recurrent concern.
The Long Take: Critical Approaches brings together essays by established and emerging scholars in an exciting collection that analyses works from a range of filmmaking traditions, from the 1930s to the present day, selected to represent varied long take practices and to explore associated debates.

• By John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (John Gibbs is Professor of Film and Douglas Pye is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Film)
• Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• in English
• Hardcover, 263 pages

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This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism. Slow films dispense with narrative progression in favour of a contemplative mood, which is stretched out to the extreme in order to impel viewers to confront cinematic temporality in all its undivided glory. Despite its critical reputation as an oblique mode of film practice, slow cinema continues to attract, challenge and provoke audiences. Focusing on filmmakers Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this book identifies nostalgia, absurd humour and boredom as intrinsic dimensions of slow cinema and explores the ways in which these directors negotiate local filmmaking conventions with the demands of a global cinephile niche. As the first study to treat slow cinema both as an aesthetic style and as an institutional discourse, Poetics of Slow Cinema offers an illuminating perspective on the tradition's historical genealogy and envisions it with a Janus-faced disposition in the age of digital technologies?lamenting at once the passing of difficult, ambiguous modernist film and capitalizing on the yearning for its absence.

• By Emre Çağlayan (Emre Çağlayan is a Teaching Fellow in Film Theory at Newcastle University, UK)
• Published by Palgrave Macmillan, October 12, 2018
• in English
• Hardcover, 244 pages, 6.2 x 1 x 8.5 inches, 1.3 pounds

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Une fiche de référence sur Winter Sleep, un chef-d'oeuvre de Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Parmi les sensations prégnantes de Winter Sleep, figurent sans conteste le paysage hivernal de la Cappadoce et l'hôtel troglodyte, théâtre du huis clos conjugal écrit au scalpel par Nuri Bilge Ceylan et sa femme, Ebru. Au sentiment d'espace que la beauté plastique des horizons de pierres impose, se mêle ce que suggère la configuration de ces habitations : l'extrémité d'un monde, la réclusion. Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'Encyclopaedia Universalis associent une analyse du film et un article de fond sur son auteur :
- Pour connaître et comprendre l'œuvre et son contexte, l'apprécier plus finement et pouvoir en parler en connaissance de cause.
- Pour se faire son propre jugement sous la conduite d'un guide à la compétence incontestée.

• Published by Encyclopaedia Universalis, 2017
• in French
• Kindle Edition

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A Dutch Theatre Adaptation of the movie "Üç Maymun-Three Monkeys":
Early twenties Ismail has difficulty finding his way and keeps the memory of his early deceased older brother not only him but the whole family in its grip. When his father to go in a nice financial reward for his boss prison and his mother with the same boss gets a relationship that has far-reaching consequences. The play "Drie Apen" is based on the film Three Monkeys (2008) by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

• By Robert van Dijk (the playwrighter)
• Published by De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek
• in Dutch
• Paperback

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Gender, Nation and Past in the New Cinema of Turkey:
In the mid-1990s Turkish cinema experienced a remarkable revival. However, what is particularly unusual about this revival is the emergence of a new representational form: silent, inaudible characters. Equally unusual is the fact that this new on-screen silence had a gender(ed/ing) aspect, since, for the most part, the mute(d) characters were female. This book focuses on these newly emergent silent female characters in the new cinema of Turkey, and explores the relationship between the 'new' female representational form, the 'new' cinema of Turkey, and the 'new' socio-political climate in Turkey after the September 12, 1980 military coup. It investigates two central questions: what are the functions, formations and operations of these silent female characters, and why did this female representational form emerge specifically in this timeframe? Bearing a cinematic function of instrumentality and exposing, one way or another, a close association between point of view and discursive authority in the films studied, the silent female representational form in the new cinema of Turkey is a cinematic symptom of the on-going struggle over the disrupted orders of gender, nation and national memory due to an increase in thus-far silenced or marginalized voices in Turkey.

• By Özlem Güçlü (She is an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey, where she teaches on film and media. She is also a Research Associate in the Centre for Film Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her current research focuses on contemporary cinema of Turkey, representations of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, national identity and memory in the cinema of Turkey, and the social and political history of Turkey.)
• Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing;
                                1st Unabridged edition (August 1, 2016)
• in English
• Hardcover, 220 pages.

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On altı filmin izinde:
Sinemayla bir yerlerde tanışıp da merhabalaşmışsanız vazgeçilmez olduğunu bilirsiniz. Hatta onu ciddiye almayıp apayrı işlere dahi odaklansanız, yine de peşinizi bırakmayacaktır! İlk film cihazının "Büyülü Fener" diye adlandırılması da boşuna olmasa gerek sanırım... Ülkemizde de bu fenerin büyüsüne kapılıp, iyi filmler yapma uğruna ömürlerini harcayarak elini taşın altına sokmaktan çekinmeyen fedakâr sinemacılarımız oldu ve ortaya çıkardıkları filmler ise kalplerimizde çoktan yerlerini aldı. Sinemamızın bu değerli insanlarına karşı bir saygı duruşunda bulunabilmek ve onları siz sinemaseverlere bir nebze de olsa aktarabilmek ümidiyle hazırladığımız kitabımızda aşağıdaki filmlerin hikâyelerini bulacaksınız... Susuz Yaz (1963), Vesikalı Yarim (1968), Umut (1970), Canım Kardeşim (1973), Gelin (1973), Hababam Sınıfı (1975), Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım (1977), Yol (1981), Züğürt Ağa (1985),Muhsin Bey (1987), Eşkıya (1996), Masumiyet (1997), Vizontele (2001), Babam ve Oğlum (2005), Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (2011), Kış Uykusu (2013)
(Tanıtım Bülteninden)

• By Hasan Yılmaz
• Published by Sokak Kitapları Yayınları (2016)
• in Turkish
• Paperback, 384 pages.,

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L'immaturité en chacun, source de l'individualisme contemporain:
Dans l'espoir de la reprise d'un progrès mental et moral collectif susceptible de ranimer le meilleur de nos valeurs démocratiques, par cet opuscule je voudrais appeler chaque individu à sa responsabilité personnelle. Conjointement, je voudrais réveiller notre sentiment fraternel d'appartenance sans frontière à la condition humaine. J'aimerais contribuer à poser un discours alternatif dynamique capable de s'opposer au discours populiste qui, aux dernières nouvelles, rencontre l'assentiment d'un pourcentage de plus en plus grand de Français. J'aimerais fédérer les volontés individuelles constructives, celles de tous ces gens qui veulent réparer les dégâts causés par nos irresponsabilités passées et actuelles, et qui veulent réorienter leurs actes et entreprises dans un sens constructif, juste et respectueux. Pour couper court au populisme qui parle à l'individualisme primaire, je voudrais mobiliser chacun en ses parties évoluées afin qu'il se sente personnellement responsable de l'immaturité mettant la démocratie en danger et qu'il œuvre ainsi du mieux qu'il peut au grandissement des mentalités.
"The book contains a section on Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan."

• By Sylvie Portnoy Lanzenberg (She is a psychoanalyst training. Violence and human destructiveness, it connects to our immaturity, are at the heart of its research. His concern is to try to pass psycho knowledge to the largest number so that a strong reflective consciousness, we know more accept our condition and evolve.)
• Published by L'Harmattan (26 février 2015)
• in French
• Paperback, 146 pages., 185gr.

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The Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan had his short film Cocoon selected for the 1995 Cannes Festival competition, the first Turkish short ever to achieve this distinction. Ceylan has been acclaimed at Cannes ever since: Distant won the Grand Prix in 2003, Climates the FIPRESCI prize, and Three Monkeys the Best Director award. In 2011 he won the Grand Prix again, for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and Ceylan's 2014 film Winter Sleep won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Ceylan's low-budget, art-house cinema thrives on a tension between dedication to formal control and commitment to realistic authenticity. His films are drenched in a brooding, meditative atmosphere and anchored to a deeply intimate form of visual and aural poetry that undercuts the importance of narrative per se. In its own quiet, understated manner, Ceylan's cinema confronts the big thematic questions of all great art: what are we doing with our lives and why; how does the past influence both the present and future; how may we reconcile our desires and ideals with the disappointments of reality; how can our human relationships survive intact when people are forever being encouraged to search for something better than what they already have? Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Essays and Interviews is the first book wholly in English dedicated to this important artist's oeuvre. Included are eight interviews with Ceylan and ten essays about his films, together with a biographical introduction, full movie credits, and a bibliography. Robert Cardullo has published a number of books, among them André Bazin on French Cinema, World Directors in Dialogue, and Playing to the Camera. After taking his doctoral degree from Yale, Cardullo taught for four decades both inside and outside the United States. (Back cover)

• By Robert Cardullo (Robert Cardullo has published a number of books, among them André Bazin on French Cinema, World Directors in Dialogue, and Playing to the Camera. After taking his doctoral degree from Yale, Cardullo taught for four decades both inside and outside the United States).
• Published by Logos Verlag Berlin (July 7, 2015)
• in English
• Paperback, 270 pages.

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"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility" Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.

• By Ira Jaffe (Emeritus Professor, former chair and founder of the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico. He is author of Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films (2008) and co-editor of Redirecting the Gaze; Gender, Theory and Cinema in the Third World (1999)).
• Published by Columbia University Press (11 Jun 2014)
• in English
• Paperback, 256 pages, 16x23cm.

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2002 setzt sich der türkische Filmemacher Nuri Bilge Ceylan mit dem innerländischen Demografiewandel, der Binnenmigration, auseinander und schafft damit ein cineastisches Meisterwerk, das in Europa mit zahlreichen Filmpreisen ausgezeichnet wird. Doch was genau macht diesen unscheinbaren Film so besonders und wieso wird er als europäisches Kino gefeiert, wo er doch ein scheinbar speziell türkisches Problem aufarbeitet? Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt den Film in einen gesellschaftspolitischen und filmhistorischen Zusammenhang, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk auf der Analyse und Interpretation der stilisierenden Merkmale liegt.

(In 2002, the Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan at their innerländischen demographics change, internal migration, apart, creating a cinematic masterpiece that is excellent in Europe with numerous film awards. But what exactly makes this unassuming film so special and why it is celebrated as a European cinema, where he still worked up a seemingly specifically Turkish problem? This work sets the film in a socio-political and film-historical context, where the emphasis is on the analysis and interpretation of the stylized features.)

• By Ilker Çatak
• Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (30 Dezember 2010)
• in English
• Paperback, 96 pages, 15x22cm.

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The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. In International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the significance and meanings of these films, their roots in other media, and their reception in the national industries which gave them form. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: What do Westerns not made in the U.S. reveal? In what ways do they challenge or support the idea of national literatures and cinemas? How do these films negotiate nation, narrative, and genre?

• By Cynthia J. Miller & A.Bowdoin Van Riper
• Published by Scarecrow Press (November 21, 2013)
• in English
• Hardcover, 476 pages, 16x23cm.

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The editor has chosen 15 representative figures from Iran, China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan,Kurdistan, and Afghanistan: namely, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Majid Majidi, Bahman Ghobadi, Siddiq Barmak, Samira Makhmalbaf, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hong Sang-soo, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jun Ichikawa, Kim Ki-duk, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, and Tsai Ming-liang. As a whole, "Wind from the East: New World Cinema, Asian Style" documents an alternative to Western brands of cinema even as these "foreign" directors in some instances integrate Western forms, styles, and genres into their own native traditions. As such, these artists could be said to represent a global filmmaking perspective that now, more than ever, this world can use. "Wind from the East" concludes with a bibliography and individual filmographies.

• By Robert Cardullo
• Published by Lambert Academic Publishing (12 November 2009)
• in English
• Paperback, 324 pages, 15x21cm.

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Discussions on Filmmakers.

• Published by Books LLC, Wiki Series (Aug. 30 2011)
• in English
• Softcover, 242 pages, 19x24cm.

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How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through analysis of films, Kristi McKim calls our attention to the ways that we read our atmospheres both within and beyond the movies. Building upon meteorological definitions of weather's dynamism and volatility, this book shows how film weather can reveal character interiority, accelerate plot development, inspire stylistic innovation, comprise a momentary attraction, convey the passage of time, and idealize the world at its greatest meaning-making capacity. Using film theory, history, formalist/phenomenological analysis, and eco-criticism, this book casts cinema as weather, insofar as our skies and screens become readable through our interpretation of changing phenomena.

• By Kristi Mc Kim (Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Film Studies Program at Hendrix College, US)
• Published by Routledge (USA), February 25, 2013
• in English
• Hardcover, 234 pages, 16x23cm.

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J. Hoberman turns an erudite eye to the study of twenty-first-century cinema and finds that, only a dozen years into the new millennium, the world of movies has already experienced a revolutionary transformation. This sea change in filmmaking spanned the 2000 American presidential election and the trauma of 9/11, events that reshaped world politics and left an indelible imprint on the emerging aesthetic of the new century's cinema. A rupture opened up in the evolution of film, presaging, as Susan Sontag forlornly predicted a few years earlier, the death of cinephilia, or at least cinephilia as we know it. Witty and allusive, in the style of classic film theorist/critics such as André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, Film After Film expands on a much-discussed era-defining Artforum article by Hoberman before moving on to a chronicle of the Bush years in cinema.

• By J. Hoberman
• Published by Verso (USA), 21 August 2012
• in English
• Hardcover, 304 pages, 14x21cm.

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I have chosen representative figures from such countries as Iran, China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Kurdistan, and Afghanistan: Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Majid Majidi, Bahman Ghobadi, Siddiq Barmak, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hong Sang-soo, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Jun Ichikawa, Kim Ki-duk, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, and Tsai Ming-liang. Waves from the East documents an alternative to Western brands of cinema, even as these foreign directors in some instances integrate Western forms, styles, and genres into their own native traditions. As such, these artists could be said to represent a global filmmaking perspective that now, more than ever, this world and the American nation in particular can use.

• By Bert Cardullo
• Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, February 2010
• in English
• Hardcover, 245 pages, 15x21cm.

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The latest in the excellent FilmCraft series of books concentrating on different aspects of the filmmaking process is Directing. The choice of directors featured by author Mike Goodridge includes in depth interviews with Clint Eastwood, Paul Greengrass, Peter Weir, Pedro Almodovar, Susanne Bier, Stephen Frears, Zhang Yimou, Istvan Szabo, Park Chan-wook, Michael Haneke, Terry Gilliam, Amos Gitai, Guillermo del Toro, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. (From the review by Paul Green)

• By Michael Goodridge
• Published by Focal Press, June 2012
• in English
• Paperback, 192 pages, 25x23cm.

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Ünlü ve Çağdaş Yönetmenlerden Sinema Dersleri. Beyazperdeye yansıyan yaratıcılığın nihai sorumlusu olan yönetmen, her filmde geminin kaptanıdır. Oyuncular ve departman şefleri yönetmene rapor verir. Bazı yönetmenler aynı zamanda senaristtir de; benzersiz tarzlarıyla karakterler yaratır ve diyalog yazarlar. Sinema Sanatı dizisinin bu ilk kitabı, filmin senaryo yazımı ve oyuncularla çalışmaya, tasarım ve görüntü yönetmenliğinden postprodüksiyon ve dağıtıma kadar tüm disiplinlerini kapsayan yönetmenlik üstüne ufuk açıcı ve eğlenceli bir başvuru kitabı. (Tanıtım Bülteninden).

• By Michael Goodridge
• Published by Focal Press, June 2012
• in Turkish
• Paperback, 192 pages, 25x23cm.

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Dört Kurucu Yönetmen: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Zeki Demirkubuz, Derviş Zaimoğlu, Zahit Atam Yakın Plan Yeni Türkiye Sineması, siyasal iktidar-sinema ilişkisinin kurulması ve sinema tarihimizin dönemlendirilmesi ile başlıyor. Bir doğu ülkesi olarak batıyla yüzleşme çabalarımız ve estetik arayışlarımızla birlikte sosyo-ekonomik yapımızdan psikolojik alana kadar derin ve köklü bir kırılma olan 12 Eylül'ün yarattığı yıkımların nasıl bir dönüşüm geçirerek Yeni Sinemada yansıtıldığını analizin merkezine alıyor. Dört Kurucu Yönetmenin bütün filmlerinin yakın plan analizi yapılırken, 'yeni'nin tarihsel farklılıklarının izi sürülüyor.

• By Zahit Atam
• Paperback, 704 pages, in Turkish
• Size: 16 x 24 cm.
• Published by Cadde Yayınları, 2011

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This publication was compiled on the occasion of publishing "The Provincial Triology" DVD set of Nuri Bilge Ceylan with the contribution of the "Altyazi Film Magazine" writers. Include never seen articles, interviews and photos.

• Editor: Mustafa Dağıstanlı
• In Turkish
• Paperback, 106 pages
• Size: 14 x 19 cm.
• Published by NTV, 2010

"Türk sinemasında 1990'larda başlayan dönüşümle beraber ortaya çıkan yeni kuşak yönetmenlerden biri de Nuri Bilge Ceylan'dır. Asıl olarak fotoğraf sanatı birikiminden gelen Ceylan, özellikle siyah-beyaz fotoğraf estetiğini içselleştirerek geliştirmiş, sinemasında da bu estetiği oldukça fazla kullanmıştır. Görüntülerin bir kısmında fotografik değer sinemasal olana üstün dahi gelir. Bir estetik kaygının sonucudur bu; kimi zaman renklerle bile oynanır ve duygu dünyasının titreşimleri imgenin tabiatını da belirler. Tematik olarak ise, üçlemede (Kasaba, Mayıs Sıkıntısı, Uzak) mevcut izlenimci ve durumcu bakış, sonrasında bir müdahaleyle varoluşsal olanın bıçak sırtına dönüşür ve bir yerde bir muamma olan insan doğasının peşine düşer." (Arka kapak)

• By Ayşe Pay, Küre yayınları 2009
• in Turkish
• Paperback, 76 pages
• Size: 12 x 20 cm.

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Providing a sharp and engaging analysis of the films by internationally acclaimed new wave Turkish directors... 
Asuman Suner explores the emergence of the new wave Turkish cinema against the backdrop of the drastic transformation of Turkey since the 1990s. Suner argues that this new cinema, including both commercial and independent productions, persistently returns to the themes of belonging, identity and memory;  it is how films address these themes that constitutes a dividing line, with big budget popular films tending to settle contradictions into comforting resolutions, while independent movies demonstrate their paradoxical nature.  At the same time, she addresses the divergences between popular and "art" cinema that destabilize the very distinction between these categories.(From the back cover)

• By Asuman Suner
• Published by I.B.Tauris (UK), December 2009
• in English
• Paperback, 224 pages

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Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging
Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging is the first comprehensive study of the cinema of Turkey to be published in English... Written by a film scholar familiar with Turkish language and culture who has undertaken extensive research both in Turkey and its neighbouring countries, this is an indispensable reference for students of cinema and Middle Eastern studies, as well as the general reader interested in this dynamic, rich and thoroughly modern national cinema.

• By Gönül Dönmez-Colin
• Published by Reaktion books (UK), November 2008
• in English
• Paperback, 224 pages
• Size: 15x20cm.

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Exile Cinema : Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood
Outside the shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control. In Exile Cinema, prominent film critics profile the oeuvres of working, thriving international filmmakers. These filmmakers battle the greatest odds a modern artist can face: the opposition of mass culture at large and a medium that requires enormous expenditures in every stage of production and distribution. Naturally, the average American moviehead rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors' work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay. Whimsical and deeply subjective, the viewpoints and evangelisms in Exile Cinema will serve as salve for the cineaste's lonesome fury.
(From the back cover)

• By Michael Atkinson (Professor of Film at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University and former staff film critic for the Village Voice)
• Published by State University of New York Press, USA, 2008
• in English
• Paperback, 217 pages
• Size: 15 x 23 cm.

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The DNA of cinema: the most innovative and influential filmmakers in the world today
Cinema Now examines the work and key themes of 60 filmmakers working around the world today, from the cream of the crop of young Hollywood to the new wave of Asian mavericks to burgeoning auteurs from Europe and Latin America.
Cinema Now is packed with stunning full-color photos and exclusive on-set photography, and even comes with a supplementary DVD containing exclusive short films, extracts, trailers, and much more... (From the back cover)

• By Paul Duncan,
• Published by Taschen, 2007
• in English
• Paperback, 576 pages
• Size: 21 x 26 cm., 2kg.

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Yeni Türk filmlerinin bize "hayalet evleri" anlattığını söylüyor Asuman Suner. Terk ettiğimiz, kimi zaman zorla boşalttırılmış, içinde hayaletlerin dolaştığı, tekinsiz, ürkütücü evler bunlar. Ama aynı zaman da bir türlü tam olarak geride bırakamadığımız, özlem duyduğumuz, karşısında çocuklaştığımız, döndüğümüzde eskisi gibi bulamadığımız, sürekli "hayaletini kurduğumuz" evler... 
İncelemenin merkezinde Türk sinemasının son dönemdeki belli başlı yapıtları ve bu verimi borçlu olduğumuz önde gelen yönetmenler var. Yeni Türk sineması Türkiye'de "aidiyet" meselesi etrafındaki gerilimleri gözleyebileceğimiz verimli bir kültürel zemin sunuyor. Hem bu gerilimlere tanıklık ederek, kamusal alanda söze dökülemeyen endişe ve fantazileri gösteren kültürel bir alan açıyor hem de eleştirel bir müdahale platformu oluşturuyor. 
Kültürel inceleme konusu olarak ele aldığı bu yeni Türk sinemasının, artık "ulusal sinema" çerçeve içine sığmadığını düşünen Suner'in zihnimizi farklı görme biçimlerine kışkırtan, elimize yeni kuramsal araç gereçler veren kitabı yetkin bir akademik çalışma. Yazarın henüz görmemiş olduğunuz filmler hakkında bile olsa, kolaylıkla takip edebilmenizi sağlayan canlı betimlemeleri ve başarılı anlatımı sayesinde mümkün oluyor bu. (Arka kapak)

• By Asuman Suner
• Published by Metis, Nisan 2006
• in Turkish
• Paperback, 337 pages

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Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers
in Interview
Talking Movies is a collection of interviews with audacious and respected contemporary filmmakers. Selected directors represent figures whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by modern audiences. The book offers a truly international perspective, including global pioneers who frankly discuss their craft and the social, political, and technological forces that inform it: Laurent Cantet, Ceddric Kahn, and Bertrand Tavernier (France); Hal Hartley and Richard Linklater (USA); Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Carlos Reygadas (Mexico); Stephen Frears and Pawel Pawlikowski(UK); Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey); Atom Egoyan (Canada); Suzanne Bier (Denmark); Tran Anh Hung (Vietnam); Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran); Elia Suleiman (Palestine); and Lucrecia Martel (Argentina).
(From the back cover)

• By Jason Wood (Writer, programmer and filmmaker)
• Published by Wallflower Press, England, 2006
• in English
• Paperback, 224 pages
• Size: 15 x 21 cm.

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This publication was compiled on the occasion of the Balkan Survey tribute to Nuri Bilge Ceylan that was organized by the 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (17-26 November 2006). Includes articles by Turkish and Greek critics and directors.

• Editor: Dimitris Kerkinos
• Bilingual in English and Greek
• Paperback, 36 pages
• Size: 16 x 28 cm.
• Published by Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2006

"Kitapta, Ceylan'ın Kasaba'dan, hatta ilk kısa filmi Koza'dan Uzak'a kadar olan ve öyküsel açıdan olduğu kadar, karakterlerinin devamlılık göstermesi gibi özellikleriyle birbirine eklemlenen filmleri, doğa/ kültür, yerleşik/ gezgin, tanıdık/yabancı gibi ikili karşıtlıklar yanında, taşra, taşralılık, ev, aidiyet gibi kavramlar ışığında inceleniyor. Ancak kitapta Ceylan'ın sineması, yalnızca öyküsel bir devamlılık göstermesi ve kavramsal bir açılım sağlamasıyla değil, aynı zamanda filmlerinin konularını yaşamdan alması ve kendi deneyimlediği yaşamı, sanatına, sinemasına konu etmesi, tam da sinemaya özgü olan yollarla anlatması yönüyle de ele alınıyor." Hasan Akbulut (Arka kapak)

• By Hasan Akbulut, Bağlam yayınları 2005
• in Turkish
• Paperback, 184 pages
• Size: 14 x 20 cm.

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Cent Cinéastes D'aujourd'hui
( One hundred filmmakers today )
100 filmmakers accompany the 50th anniversary of the film magazine Positif. The book opens with a portrait of Michelangelo Antonioni, defended from the No. 16 of the magazine and closes with Elia Suleiman present in No. 500 in 2002. The reader will find in the succession of filmmakers photographed by Nicolas Guerin for two years, movements in the history of film in fifty years... In this interweaving of generations can be found throughout the film world as it occupies the screens of cinemas or the pages of Positive.
(From the back cover)

• By Nicolas Guerin
• Published by Dreamland, France, 2002
• in French
• Paperback, 214 pages
• Size: 23 x 26 cm.

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