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Cinema and society are dependent on each other and even have an interactive structure. This interactive structure allows social changes and transformations to take place in cinema as well. Cinema, which is affected by society, is also influenced by national elements. Halit Refiğ, the pioneer of the "National Cinema" movement in the history of Turkish cinema, is an important director who argues that Turkish cinema should develop its own interpretation of the cinema. While Refiğ creates the theoretical background of the "National Cinema" movement, he defines his films as both content and form related to these ideas. In his films, he strives to create a unique form of cinema suits the Turkish society by focusing on the national values in his own cinema in the context of the East-West dilemma. This study investigates how the East-West dilemma was dealt with in the cinema of Refiğ, based on the films A Turk's Heart, Fatma Bacı and Shurun Kahpeye. This article investigates how Refiğ's films reflect his cinema tendency and that was analyzed according to a schema that adapted to the cinema and based on Teun A van Dijk's critical discourse analysis. As a result of this study, it is clearly determined that Halit Refiğ reveals the East-West dilemma in the researched three films.

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