Transmission et historiographie du cinéma : l’influence de Georges Sadoul sur Nijat Özön, pionnier marxiste de l’histoire turque du cinéma

Abstract

Nijat Özön (1927–2010) is considered to be the “pioneer” of cinema historiography in Turkey with the publication of his first work dedicated to Turkish cinema in 1962. In fact, his History of Turkish Cinema from Yesterday to Today: 1896–1960 was an attempt to write the history of cinema by focusing on its artistic aspects as well as on its industrial aspects. From his preliminary articles published in the 1950s, the author set out to analyze the situation of Turkish cinema from an economic, industrial, and institutional perspective and not only from an aesthetic point of view. Did the “Sadoulian model” of the history of cinema play a key role in the approach and practice of this Turkish cinema specialist? The aim of this article is to study the impact of Georges Sadoul's Marxist vision and his documentation methodology had on the historical discourse of his Turkish colleague. The article merges two theoretical concepts (comparative approach and the historiographical operation) to highlight the social milieu to which Özön belongs, the practices he uses as an historian and the intellectual influences he undergoes in his writing work.