Abstract:

The phenomenon of nostalgia has been one of the main discussions of social sciences after modernization. Along with urbanization, modernization and industrialization, a collective quest has emerged in societies and the past has begun to be idealized to get rid of the deadlocks of modern life. In this context, modernity has had a significant impact on the massification and spread of nostalgia. Nostalgia, as a longing for a different temporal and spatial past, manifests itself in many areas. Nostalgia is a dominant theme, especially in movies. It can be stated that this situation becomes evident in Turkish cinema as nostalgia for the countryside. Especially in the New Turkish Cinema, which started to rise rapidly after the 1990s, the countryside has become a nostalgic haunt. The aim of this study is to reveal the appearances of provincial nostalgia in New Turkish Cinema. In this context, the samples of Dondurmam Gaymak (2006) and İftarlık Gazoz (2016), which were selected using the judgmental sampling technique, were analyzed in line with the way the country nostalgia was handled in New Turkish Cinema by using the document analysis method. The data obtained were evaluated on the axis of the basic components of the nostalgic paradigm, which is also included in the literature, and a discussion was carried out on the construction of countryside nostalgia.

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