Bu çalışmada, Abbas Kiarostami’nin yönetmenliğini yaptığı Yakın Çekim (1990) filminin, sinema ve gerçekçilik bağlamında analizi yapılmıştır. Analiz yapılırken nokta metaforundan yararlanılmıştır. Nokta metaforu, gerçeğin bir nüvesi, gerçekliğe ulaşma çabasının izdüşümü kendinden hareketle çoğaltılması bakımından önem taşımaktadır. bakımdan metaforunun sağladığı anlam zenginliğinden yararlanılar...

Abstract As part of the collective endeavor to explore modalities and challenges narrative in Persianate world, this article reconsiders Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up (1990), a film characterized by special cinematographic feature. While accounting for what appears be story swindling identity theft, Kiarostami keeps viewer state uncertainty about nature he sees, blurring boundaries between docume...

In this paper Abbas Kiarostami's films for children are discussed from the perspective of a cognitive studies approach. The crux of the argument is that the visual elements of film are essentially metonymic. Where is My Friend’s Home? has a quest-script instantiated by means of four components drawn on Brown and Babbington. Transcultural viewing is enabled by techno-cu...

Abbas Kiarostami set out his cinematic experience with works for children and about them. Despite the significant place this early phase of his oeuvre possesses in Iranian cinema, little has been done to analyze the ethical relations in these works. The major claim of this research project is that there are two major ethical conditions at the heart of ...