FOLKLORIC ELEMENTS IN TURKISH CINEMA: THE EXAMPLE OF MAVİ BONCUK (BLUE BEAD) MOVIE

Abstract

Culture is the set of values that bring a nation or community together at a common point. Folk culture, matures by being fed by the morals, religious rituals, traditions, customs and other elements of the society in which it lives, and is transferred from generation to generation by blending with the experiences of centuries. As a result of this transfer, culture continues to exist in change and development. Today, cinema, which is one of the mass media, has an important place in the transfer of culture. Cinema carries natural or fictional images and has auditory data. Thanks to this feature, it provides material to folk culture and therefore it is a kind of source of folk culture. Movies, which contain emotions such as drama, sadness, comedy and fear, present many elements of folk culture on the silver screen. Cinema includes many cultural elements such as proverbs, idioms, songs, experiences, folk tales, clothing styles, and the economic and political climate of the period.

Every culture has a set of values. Therefore, every phenomenon shaped by culture is a part of the culture of the society to which it belongs. Turkish cinema, with its films, has collected and recorded cultural facts from the past to the present and has become an important tool in transferring them to the next generation. The products of Turkish folk culture include the daily life, thoughts, world views and tastes of Turkish society. The influence of directors and screenwriters is great in the exhibition of Turkish folk culture in cinema. Indeed, films are shaped by directors and screenwriters and processed by actors. In this study, it will be examined how the cultural elements in the “Mavi Boncuk (Blue Bead)” movie, which was released in 1974, are reflected on the silver screen. While making this study, Sedat Veyis Örnek's folklore classification study was taken as an example.