Ankara : The Department of Communication and Design, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2014.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2014.Includes bibliographical references leaves 117-123.This study analyzes minority representation strategies in Turkish cinema,
particularly Kurds in mainstream comedies. In the study passing is taken into account
as a representation strategy that was developed and sustained by the dominant
ideology in order to maintain ethnic inequalities in a society. Study examines how
minority representations are created by majority through different discourses and
how Kurdishness contextually either exaggerated or lessened by passing strategies of
the mainstream Turkish cinema to privilege one ethnicity, Turkishness, over the
other(s).Deliormanlı, EceM.S
