Abstract
This article focuses on the short lived Turkish police procedural TV series, Cinayet (The Murder, Akbel Film and Adam Film, 2014) which is a scripted format adaptation of the celebrated Danish crime drama Forbrydelsen (DR, 2007-2012). By making a comparative textual analysis of the series, the article intends to emphasize the significance of ‘aesthetic proximity’ as a concept in discussing the global flow of television content and to reveal the challenges of adapting a scripted format which is stylistically different than the local stylistic conventions.
Highlights
Focusing on style can offer great insights about the particularities of a television culture and industry
Yeşilçam can be approached as an aesthetic legacy that waits to be appropriated by Turkish TV series
The comparative textual analysis shows that aesthetics play a major role in adapting Forbrydelsen in the Turkish context
Summary
Focusing on style can offer great insights about the particularities of a television culture and industry. The first part of this article focuses on these culturally bound television styles and aesthetics in the Turkish context by mainly introducing the dynamics of Turkish TV series industry, historical influence of Yeşilçam cinema on local aesthetics and the dominance of melodramatic storytelling in Turkish TV series At this point, it should be noted that this article aims to approach the stylistic conventions that are elaborated here as dynamic formations that are shaped at the intersection of various discourses and are open to change depending on the conditions of the historical era. The article discusses the stylistics challenges that Cinayet faces in narrating the story of the Danish original by balancing between reflecting the essential features of the adapted text and conforming to the conventional stylistics of Turkish TV series on mainstream TV channels
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