Abstract:

This article analyzes the horror cinema literature in Turkey. Particularly, it has increased the interest in Turkish horror films, and the number of academic publications depends on the changing structure and ideologies of society in the last two decades. It has discussed books, articles, and graduate theses on horror cinema with the content analysis according to qualitative research design. In this study were examined 144 publications including 31 books, 42 articles, and 71 postgraduate publications. The works were obtained through surveys carried out in the national thesis data center, Dergipark, Google Academic, and various library catalogs on the web. While examining the publications, they were scanned according to the elements of “horror cinema”, “horror”, “Turkish horror cinema”, “ the elements of horror” the data obtained as a result of this analysis were analyzed. In this study, the book of horror cinema in Turkey literature, articles and aimed to determine the context of the graduate thesis. Thus, it is aimed to contribution to the horror cinema literature in Turkey.

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