THE IMAGE OF THE POLICE IN TURKISH AND AMERICAN CINEMA

Authors : Ahmet Varol

Pages : 57-74

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Publication Date : 2024-06-30

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The aim of this study is to reveal how Turkish and American cinema present police characters to their audience. In this context, ten Turkish-made and ten American-made films, which were determined as the research universe and at least one of the main characters of which was a policeman, were selected by the \'purposeful sampling\' method, the selected films were examined using qualitative content analysis within the scope of the categories and sub-categories created, and the findings were evaluated. The importance of the study is that although there are many factors affecting the image of the police in the society, there are not many studies on how cinema as a mass media makes a police presentation to the society and it contributes to the literature in terms of this deficiency. As a result of the findings, it was seen that the image of a skilled and generally disciplined police was presented to the audience in the films. Again, in these films, it was understood that the police mostly showed respect to the citizens but showed harsh behavior towards the criminals, the main characters in the roles of the police in the films were mostly civilian policemen, some of the characters were rank and some were police officers, and at the end of the movie, the criminals were mostly caught or killed, so the police fulfilled their duty
Keywords : İmaj, Polis İmajı, Sinema