Abstract:

It is clear that the film is re-producing reality while also shaping it. The cinema does this through the representations. At the same time, it legalizes the cinema, the dominant institutions and its traditional values. Therefore, the cinema has the function of vaccinating and spreading ideologies. In this thesis study, it was questioned how television is represented as a mass communication medium in films and what the purpose of these representations is. In the choice of this subject, it has been effective that there is no sufficient number of works in literature on the representation of television in the cinema as a medium of public communication. Twenty films have been selected for this study: Network/Network (1976), The China Syndrome/China Syndrome/The Destiny of the World (1979), Videodrome (1983), Broadcast News/News (1987), The Running Man/The Cowboy Man (1987), Natural Born Killers/The Dead Birds (1994), Quiz Show/Shike (1994), Mad City/The Crazy City (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Edtv (1999), 15 Minutes (2001), Good Night, and Good Luck/Good Nights Good Luck (2005), Man of the Year/The President of the Year (2006), Live!/Procent Live (2007), Frost-Nixon (2008), Morning Glory/The Good Morning (2010), Blesson/The Good Morning (2010), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), The Good Morning (2015), These twenty examples of films were selected from the examples of popular cinema, with the technique of targeted sampling. These films have been analyzed by the method of speech analysis and speech has been studied in six categories: 1) TV in the context of advertising, 2) TV in the context of politics and relations with other institutions, 3) Professionals and Ethics, Principle, TV in the context of values, 4) Sex, Race and Class in the context of television, 5) TV in the context of viewing rates, 6) TV in the context of laws and regulations. In all the films under these categories, it has been seen that television is represented quite negatively as a medium of public communication. In the framework of the assessments made, it can be said that the representations of the popular cinema in relation to television have an ideological function and re-produced the dominant ideology through the representations.

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