REGIONAL AND HEGEMONIC IMAGE OF THE UNITED STATES: ANALYSIS OF TURKISH AND FOREIGN STUDENTS’ US PERCEPTION THROUGH TWO MOVIES

Authors : Fatih ERTUGAY, Ergin ULUSOY

Pages : 521-543

Doi:10.36543/kauiibfd.2020.023

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Publication Date : 2020-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of this study is to understand and explain how the US instrumentalizes and perceives cinema for its own hegemonic policies. The scope of our study is limited to dichotomical comparisons which have an important place in the hegemonic policies of USA. Our work is a qualitative one and is based around two Hollywood films. In this context, interviews and focus group interviews were conducted with Turkish and foreign, Muslim and Christian students and their opinions about two Hollywood productions were analyzed and the data obtained were analyzed within the framework of descriptive analysis and thematic analysis methods. The data obtained from the students participating in the study give an idea of ​​how educated young people evaluate, perceive and use the relationship between cinema films and the global hegemony of the USA. In this sense, the results of our study, the use of cinemanion in the presentation of the United States and how the situation is perceived and understood by young people from different regions, countries, religions and ethnicities is trying to make a valuable contribution to the global and hegemonic policies that have been rarely seen in Turkish literature.
Keywords : American Hegemony, Hollywood and politics, Movie analysis