Abstract:

This article examines Ayşe Şasa’s intellectual contributions to Turkish cinema. Ayşe Şasa (1941-2014) comes from one of the eminent families of Turkey. The transformation she went through after an episode of schizophrenia during her youth has always been thought to be the most prominent part of her life story. However, Ayşe Şasa is the author of many screenplays of the Yeşilçam era. She not only wrote screenplays but also made theoretical contributions and reflected on the organic bond between the Yeşilcam cinema and society. She is also one of the thinkers of the Dream Cinema theory that came to the fore during the ’90s.