Karagöz – Turkish Shadow Theatre

For over fifty years, Metin And championed Turkish theatre, traditional performing arts, festivities, and the art of Ottoman miniature in dozens of articles and titleş ın Turkish and other languages. İn Karagöz: Turkish Shadow Theatre, originally written in English for an international audience in mind, he turns to one of the most original and colourful art forms that developed in and spread through the Ottoman Empire.

Starting wıth an overview of theatre traditions in Turkey, Metin And moves on to a thorough investigation of Karagöz, Turkish shadow theatre named after ıts protagonist: Its origins and development, the techniques involved in making of the figures and props, detailed studıes of the stock characters and plots, and the form’s function as political comment in the Ottoman Empire, ending wıth an account of shadow theatre’s decline and later influence in the Westernizing Turkey. This revised edition includes full-colour reproductions of figures found ın the rich Karagöz archive of Yapı Kredi Museum, aş well aş an appendix on the Turkish puppet and marionette theatre written by Metin And, the full text of a Karagöz play, and an interview wıth one of the last Karagöz performers ın Turkey.

Highly informative and hugely entertaining, Karagöz: Turkish Shadow Theatre iş an indispensable reference book on the subject.

Ürün Adı: Karagöz – Turkish Shadow Theatre
Ürün Kodu: 9789750864834
Yazar: Metin And
Basım Yılı: 2025
Kapak Türü: Karton Kapak
Sayfa Sayısı: 272
Kağıt Cinsi: 2. Hamur
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