Çevre Psikolojisi Kavramlarıyla bir Filmin Analizi: Thx 1138

Abstract

Environmental psychology, architecture and cinema have an interaction based on space. In order to exemplify this interaction, the basic concepts of environmental psychology that emerged towards the end of 1960’s are analyzed through a dystopian science fiction film THX 1138 (Lucas, 1971), a criticism of the social structure of the same period. It has been observed that the reinterpretation of the basic concepts of environmental psychology strengthened the dystopic fiction of the film, which is the reason for the preference of the film THX 1138 (Lucas, 1971) in this study. From this point of view, the interaction among environmental psychology, architecture and cinema are explained by following the method moving from general to specific. In the content of the study, firstly the interaction among environmental psychology, architecture and cinema is mentioned. Afterwards, by analyzing the spaces of the film, it is shown that some of the basic concepts of environmental psychology are reinterpreted. In this study, the basic concepts of the environmental psychology observed to be reinterpreted through the spaces of the film are as follows: ‘place attachment’, ‘place identity’, ‘privacy’, ‘spatial perception’ and ‘territoriality’. Especially within these concepts, the concept of ‘privacy’ is found important to strengthen the dystopic fiction of the film. It is observed that, this characteristic of the film is founded on the loss of the fundamental rights and freedoms due to the normalization of the absence of the privacy by the society. This study with its emphasis on the interaction among environmental psychology, architecture and cinema tries to clarify this interaction by spatial readings made on the selected film. Keywords: Environmental psychology, architecture, cinema, space, dystopia. Anahtar Sozcukler: Cevre psikolojisi, mimarlik, sinema, mekân, distopya.