{"id":5609,"date":"2025-07-04T22:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2025-07-04T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:31:56","slug":"yeni-bir-janrin-sosyolojik-olusumu-tasra-komedisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/yeni-bir-janrin-sosyolojik-olusumu-tasra-komedisi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociological Formation of a New &#8220;Genre&#8221;: Country Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 15px\"><strong>Mehmet Emin Balc\u0131<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 15px\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong> This study examines comedy films set in the countryside in post-2000 Turkish cinema as an original narrative form that transcends conventional classifications. By their popularity, these films humorously depict shifting center-periphery relations and local tensions with the metropolitan center. Drawing on Alfred Schutz&#8217;s phenomenological sociology, comedy is conceptualized as a social experience shaped through intersubjective relations and interactions with normative structures. A total of 29 feature-length films released between 2000 and 2023 are analyzed using phenomenological methods and categorized into three thematic types: political country comedies, character-based comedies, and community comedies. The findings reveal that country comedies not only portray social conflict but also depict processes of reconciliation and acceptance. In this framework, the countryside is redefined as a dynamic and contradictory social formation. The study argues that country comedy is an emerging genre in Turkish cinema with both sociological depth and aesthetic potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 15px\"><strong>Keywords: <\/strong> Center-periphery, Social change, Humor, Common sense, Character<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"transparent\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed gray;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\">Mehmet Emin Balc\u0131<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29224\/insanveinsan.1668679\">DOI: 10.29224\/insanveinsan.1668679<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\"><a title=\"Issue 40, Summer 2025\" href=\"\/en\/sayi-40-yaz-2025\/\">Year 12, Issue 40, Summer 2025<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-119 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-e1407190133528.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\">Tam metin \/ Full text<br \/>\n(Turkish)<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px;\">\n<span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/izleme-icon.png\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 40px;\">[post-views]<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/indirme-icon.png\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 145px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\"><div class=\"sdm_download_count\"><span class=\"sdm_count_number\">0<\/span><span class=\"sdm_count_string\"> Downloads<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear: left;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"sdm_download_button_box_default\"><div class=\"sdm_download_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=5592\" class=\"sdm_download grey\" title=\"(Turkish) 40-6 Mehmet Emin Balc\u0131\" target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Download Now!<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<table bgcolor=\"transparent\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed gray;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'minion pro', arial, sans-serif;\"> <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc\/4.0\/80x15.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Emin Balc\u0131 Abstract: This study examines comedy films set in the countryside in post-2000 Turkish cinema as an original narrative form that transcends conventional classifications. By their popularity, these films humorously depict shifting center-periphery relations and local tensions with the metropolitan center. Drawing on Alfred Schutz&#8217;s phenomenological sociology, comedy is conceptualized as a social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/yeni-bir-janrin-sosyolojik-olusumu-tasra-komedisi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sociological Formation of a New &#8220;Genre&#8221;: Country Comedy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sayi-40-yaz-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insanveinsan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}