NOSTALJİ ENDÜSTRİSİ OLARAK POPÜLER SİNEMA: YENİDEN BİR ARAYA GELMELER, YENİDEN ÇEVRİMLER VE YENİDEN YAPIMLAR

Bu makale, popüler sinemanın getirilerinden birisi olan nostaljik deneyime yeni bir bakış açısı geliştirmek için 2021’in sinema ve dijital platformda yayınlanan karakterlerin yeniden bir araya geldikleri yapımları incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu çalışmada, yeniden bir araya gelmeler, yeniden yapımlar, yeniden çevrimler, devam filmleri, kaynak yapımdan türetilen ayrıksı yapımlar ve öncül filmler yeniden üretilmiş yapımlar olarak ele alınmaktadır. Makalede yer alan tartışma, popüler sinemanın ticari olarak belirli deneyimleri ve kaynak anlatıları yeniden üretme yolunun nostalji temeline bağlı olduğu fikrine dayanmaktadır. 2020’li yılların başında ticari açıdan başarılı olan devam filmleri arasında, yeniden bir araya gelişlerin yer aldığı yapımların çeşitli işlevlerle sahip olduğu görülmektedir. Yeni kurulan üyelik bazlı dijital bir platform olan HBO Max, bir yıl içerisinde önemli yeniden bir araya gelişler üzerine kurulu üç yapım yayınladı. Bu bağlamda, Friends: The Reunion (2021), The Matrix Resurrections (2021), ve Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022) duygu yüklü ve nostaljik yeniden bir araya gelişlere sahne oldu. Sinema seyircisi, 2021’in dünya çapında en çok gişe hasılatı yapan filmi Spider-Man: No Way Home’da yer alan duygu yüklü sekansta, üç farklı on yıl ve ticari anlatı grubundan gelen üç Örümcek Adam’ın birlik olmasına tanık oldu. Bu çalışma, nostalji odaklı yeniden bir araya gelişlerin yer aldığı yapımların yükselen eğilimini ifade etmek için sinemanın nostaljiyle ilişkisini ve yeniden üretim pratikleri üzerine gerçekleştirilen yeni tartışmaları, geniş bir literatür taraması aracılığıyla ortaya koymaktır. Bu sebeple, belirtilen dört yapım nostaljinin popüler sinema ve dijitaldeki işlevine yönelik incelemenin kapsamına dahil edilmiştir. Bu makalenin teorik temeli, yeniden üretilmiş yapımları ve onların çağdaş benzerlerini incelerken, ilgili tartışmaları ve yaklaşım biçimlerini bir araya getirmek için hafıza çalışmalarına dayanmaktadır. Bu sebeple, bu makale birçok yeniden yapım ve yeniden çevrimler arasında, yeniden bir araya gelişleri içeren yapımların işlevlerini inceleyip anlamlandırarak alana katkı sunmaktadır.

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Yeniden bir araya gelme, nostalji, yeniden yapım, popüler sinema, deneyim, Reunion, nostalgia, remake, popular cinema, experience

POPULAR CINEMA AS NOSTALGIA INDUSTRY: REUNIONS, REMAKES, AND REQUELS

This article seeks to address 2021’s cathartic reunions on digital and in cinema in order to broaden a new perspective on popular cinema’s one of the offers, the nostalgic experience. This study approaches remakes, reboots, requels, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, and adaptations as reproduced works. The discussion is grounded on the idea that popular cinema’s commercial way of reproducing certain experiences and canonical narratives is dependent on proposing nostalgia. Among the commercially successful sequels in the early-2020s, reunions are observed with several functions. As a newly launched subscription video-on-demand platform, HBO Max aired three major reunions in a single year. In this context, Friends: The Reunion (2021), The Matrix Resurrections (2021), and Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022) stage cathartic and nostalgic reunions. The moviegoers witnessed the ensemble of three Spider-Men from three different decades and franchises in a cathartic sequence of the worldwide highest-grossing movie of 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home. The purpose of the study is to reveal the uptrend of nostalgia-oriented reunions to offer new discussions in cinema’s relation to nostalgia and debates on reproduction practices through a wide range of literature review collection. Therefore, these four productions are included in the scope to discuss nostalgia’s function in popular cinema, even on digital streaming platforms. While the study scans these reproduced works and their contemporary counterparts, the theoretical background is centered on memory studies to combine related discussions and ways of approaching them. Thus, this article proposes a contribution to the field by investigating the functions of reunions among sequels, requels, remakes, reboots, spin-offs, and adaptations in terms of their nostalgic qualities and commercial potential.

Keywords:

Reunion, nostalgia, remake, popular cinema, experience,

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