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Editorial 
 

Murat AKSER  
Kadir Has University, makser@khas.edu.tr  

 

 

Abstract 
This issue of CINEJ focuses on issues ranging from Malian Cinema, Islam in Turkish cinema, Bergman, 
Mulholland Drive and sound in early Hollywood cinema. 
Key Words: Yeleen, Cisse, Bergman, Güney, Zizek, Lynch, Mulholland Drive, psychoanalysis 

 

 

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Volume 2.1 (2012)   |  ISSN 2158-8724 (online)  |   DOI 10.5195/cinej.2012.59 | http://cinej.pitt.edu 



CINEJ Cinema Journal: Editorial 

  Volume 2.1 (2012)   |   ISSN 2158-8724 (online)   |   DOI 10.5195/cinej.2012.59  |   http://cinej.pitt.edu 
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Editorial 

 

We have now reached the number three of Cinej in November 2012. I would like to announce that we now have a 

book review section in the next issue. There is an open call to all reviewers who would like to write on the cutting 

edge scholarly study of cinema. We are also in print available from University of Pittsburgh in the US and through 

KHU in Europe. Major journal indexes are also accepting Cinej and we are proud to reach more students of cinema 

every day. 

 

This new issue has five articles. Alexander Fisher writes on Souleymane Cisse’s Yeelen. Its dynamics of aural and 

visual discourse is discussed. Next essay is on Islam in Turkish cinema. Petra de Bruijn discusses Yılmaz Güney’s 

Umut  (Hope) and İsmail Güneş’s The İmam from the perspective on conservative politics in contemporary Turkey. 

Phoebe Pua responds to a previous article on Bergman in Cinej. Her response to Esma Kartal is taking a 

philosophical stand on Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and Winter Light. Nick Redfern’s article on sound in film takes 

a quantitative approach to understand early sound in Hollywood films. 

 

Cinej has received three books for book reviews recently and they will be of interest for many film scholars soon. 

Eylem Atakav’s volume on women in Turkish cinema from Routledge is an engaging survey in the field of gender 

and cinema (Atakav, 2012). Sabina Hake and Barbara Mennel’s co-edited book on Turkish-German cinema is filling 

an important gap in transnational and diasporic cinema studies (Hake & Mennel, 2012). G.B. Pierce edited volume 

on The Sublime includes essays aspects of the history, theory, and politics of the sublime as well as examples from 

literature, art, and popular culture (Pierce, 2012). Lucy Fisher and Patrice Petro’s edited volume on teaching film 

from MLA is a significant contribution to the pedagogy of film studies (Fisher & Petro, 2012). Jeff Ruoff’s film 

festival programming book illuminates new spots in film festival studies (Ruoff, 2012). Finally, Slavoj Zizek’s book 

on worldwide uprising has an enlightening chapter on the HBO dramatic series The Wire (Zizek, 2012). Cinej is 

waiting for its reviewer to review these books.  

 

REFERENCES: 

Atakav. E. (2012). Women and turkish cinema. London: Routledge. 

Fisher, L. and Petro, P. (Eds.) (2012). Teaching Film. New York: Modern Language Association. 

Hake, S. and Mennel, B. (Eds.) (2012). Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium. New York: Berghahn. 

Pierce, G.B. (Ed.) (2012). The sublime today: contemporary readings in the aesthetic. Newcastle upon Tyne: 
Cambridge Scholars. 

Ruoff, J.  (2012) Coming to a festival near you: programming film festivals, St. Andrews Film Studies. 

Zizek, S. (2012). The wire or what to do in non-eventful times. In S. Zizek. The year of dreaming dangerously 
(pp. 91-112). London: Verso.