II. Meşrutiyet dönemi çocuk dergilerinde sinema ve Osmanlı'da çocuk seyirciler
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2022
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Osmanlı çocuklarının sinema ile ilişkileri ve Osmanlı toplumunda çocuk sinema seyircisi hakkında bildiklerimiz hayli sınırlıdır. Okumakta olduğunuz makale, modernleşme süreci içinde toplumsal konumu dönüşmekte olan Osmanlı çocuklarının sinema ile ilişkilerini ve çocuk seyirci olgusunu irdelemektedir. Bu bağlamda makalenin birinci amacı ve aynı zamanda birinci bölümünün odağı, II. Meşrutiyet (1908-1918) yıllarında İstanbul’da çıkan Osmanlı Türkçesi çocuk dergilerinde sinemanın ne şekilde işlendiğini ortaya koymaktır. Sinema-çocuk ilişkisini ve çocuk seyirciyi şekillendiren faktörlerden biri olan çocuk yayınlarından elde edilen bilgiler ve bulgular makalenin ikinci amacına hizmet edecektir. Çalışmanın doğrudan çocuk seyirciye odaklanan ikinci bölümünde evvela çocuk seyircinin kitleselleşme sürecinin tanıkları ve kanıtları üzerinde durulmuş, ardından, çocuk seyirci kitlesinden somut/bireysel örneklere odaklanılmıştır. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun son yıllarında çocuk dergileri çocukların sinemaya gitmelerini çoğu kez teşvik etmişlerdir. Sinemayı çağdaşlıkla, teknoloji ve bilimle özdeşleştirerek ona olumlu bir anlam yüklemekten başka, sayfalarına sinema salonlarının ve sinematik eşyalar satan mağazaların reklamlarını da almışlardır. Üstelik sinema bileti, sinema cihazı gibi promosyon ödülleri dağıtarak ve düzenledikleri etkinliklerde film gösterimlerine yer vererek, küçük okurlarına sinemayı doğrudan deneyimleme fırsatı sunmuşlardır. Çoğu resimli olan ve dolayısıyla okundukları kadar ve belki de okunduklarından çok seyredilen çocuk dergileri, matbu görsel seyri üzerinden çocukları film seyrine, yani sinema seyircisi olmaya hazırlarlar. II. Meşrutiyet yıllarında sinemaya yönelik rağbet giderek artarken, çocuk seyircinin kitleselleşmesini besleyen önemli faktörlerden birinin de çocuk dergileri olduğu anlaşılır. Çocuk dergilerinde sinema içeriklerinin çoğalması, sinematik promosyonlara ve reklamlara rastlanması, bu kitleselleşmenin karinelerinden biridir. Dergiler söz konusu süreci hem yansıtmış hem beslemişlerdir. Bir başka olgu da Osmanlı toplumunda milliyetçiliğin yükselişine paralel olarak çocuk dergilerinin sinematik içeriklerine milliyetçiliğin sızmaya başlamasıdır.
Our knowledge about the relationship Ottoman children had with cinema and about the “Ottoman child cinema audience” is quite limited. This article addresses how Ottoman children, whose social position underwent a transformation in the process of modernization, related to the cinema, and the phenomenon of an “Ottoman child audience.” In this context, the primary purpose of the article and the focus of the first section is to reveal how cinema was addressed in Ottoman Turkish children’s magazines during the Second Constitutional Period (1908–18) in Istanbul. Children’s publications were one of the factors shaping the cinema-child relationship, and the information about the child audience they contain suggests that Ottoman children had an active relationship with cinema during the period. The second part of the study fleshes out the nature of that relationship through accounts about and evidence of a mass child audience and individual examples from the child audience. In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, children’s magazines often encouraged children to go to the cinema. Apart from giving a positive connotation to cinema by identifying it with modernity, technology, and science, they also displayed advertisements for movie theaters and stores selling cinematic items. Moreover, by giving away promotional prizes such as movie tickets and equipment, and by including movie screenings in the events they organized, they offered their young readers the opportunity to experience cinema directly. Children’s magazines, most of which were illustrated, and therefore “viewed” as much as they were read, prepared children for watching movies and becoming a cinema audience. As the demand for cinema gradually increased during the Second Constitutional Period, one of the important factors in the growth of the child audience was children’s magazines. The increase of cinematic content and the presence of cinematic promotions and advertisements in children’s magazines are indications of this growth. Magazines both reflected and nurtured this process. Another noteworthy phenomenon discussed in the paper is the infiltration of nationalism into the cinematic content of children’s magazines in parallel with the rise of nationalism in Ottoman society.
Our knowledge about the relationship Ottoman children had with cinema and about the “Ottoman child cinema audience” is quite limited. This article addresses how Ottoman children, whose social position underwent a transformation in the process of modernization, related to the cinema, and the phenomenon of an “Ottoman child audience.” In this context, the primary purpose of the article and the focus of the first section is to reveal how cinema was addressed in Ottoman Turkish children’s magazines during the Second Constitutional Period (1908–18) in Istanbul. Children’s publications were one of the factors shaping the cinema-child relationship, and the information about the child audience they contain suggests that Ottoman children had an active relationship with cinema during the period. The second part of the study fleshes out the nature of that relationship through accounts about and evidence of a mass child audience and individual examples from the child audience. In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, children’s magazines often encouraged children to go to the cinema. Apart from giving a positive connotation to cinema by identifying it with modernity, technology, and science, they also displayed advertisements for movie theaters and stores selling cinematic items. Moreover, by giving away promotional prizes such as movie tickets and equipment, and by including movie screenings in the events they organized, they offered their young readers the opportunity to experience cinema directly. Children’s magazines, most of which were illustrated, and therefore “viewed” as much as they were read, prepared children for watching movies and becoming a cinema audience. As the demand for cinema gradually increased during the Second Constitutional Period, one of the important factors in the growth of the child audience was children’s magazines. The increase of cinematic content and the presence of cinematic promotions and advertisements in children’s magazines are indications of this growth. Magazines both reflected and nurtured this process. Another noteworthy phenomenon discussed in the paper is the infiltration of nationalism into the cinematic content of children’s magazines in parallel with the rise of nationalism in Ottoman society.
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Çocuk Dergileri, Sinema, Osmanlı Çocuk Seyircisi, II. Meşrutiyet Dönemi, Milliyetçilik, Children's Magazines, Cinema, Ottoman Child Audience, II. Constitutional Monarchy Period, Nationalism
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sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Odabaşı, İ. A. (2022). II. Meşrutiyet dönemi çocuk dergilerinde sinema ve Osmanlı'da çocuk seyirciler. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 13(1), 151-184. https://dx.doi.org/10.32001/sinecine.1055174
