Table of Contents

Contents: Bibliography including references to film festivals in Turkey - Turkish films at international film festivals and film days and the history of Turkish cinema - Bio-bibliography on directors, actors and their films - Analysis of the history of Turkish cinema from its beginnings to the present.

About the Author

The Authors: Ekkehard Ellinger, Dr. Phil., studied Social Sciences and Islamic Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He carried out research on the history of German Islamic Studies culminating in the publication of Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus,1933-1945 in 2006. He is currently working on Turkish Cinema and on one of the pioneers of German Islamic Studies, the Orientalist Julius Wellhausen. Kerem Kayi, Dr. Phil., studied English Philology, Islamic and Turkic Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin. At present he is a lecturer in Ottoman at the Institute of Turkic Studies of the same university. His general interest in the history of the late Ottoman Empire and Urban Studies led to the recent publication of Bagdad, 1831-1869 (2007). Besides his research in the field of Turkish Cinema he is currently working on the foundation of cities in 19th century Ottoman Iraq.