#HoMERIstanbul2025

Check out this week's #FreakyFriday post that fits our team's presence at #HoMERIstanbul2025! It's all about Turkish remakes of Hollywood movies. Enjoy!

#HoMERIstanbul2025 The roundtable on Cinema and Palestine, with Ifdal Elsaket, Ílke Şanlıer, and Philippe Meers was incredible. This absolutely messed-up catalogue entry presented by Ifdal should be a case study in every library school.

Gay E.T., Muslim Dracula, Kung Fu Star Wars: An Overview of Turksploitation - Bright Lights Film Journal Turkish exploitation movies are one of the most elusive gold mines of film history. * * * Currently, no exclusive history of Turksploitation cinema exists in print. The most exhaustive[...]

As you know, we're part of #HoMERIstanbul2025! (Scroll down for some pics 😎) So, #FreakyFriday will look a little different - but don't worry, we have your weekly dose of remake history with an article by Selen Ozturk about Turkish remakes of Hollywood movies:

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#HoMERIstanbul2025 roundtable on Cinema and Palestine, with contributions from Ifdal Elsaket, Philippe Meers, Tamara Maatouk, Jeremy Randall, Claire Begbie and Ílke Şanlıer.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 Morgan Corriou, Caroline Damiens, Mélisande Leventopoulos and Judith Thissen discuss Alternative Tracks in Distribution and Exhibition.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 AydınÇam, Çiğdem Aksu Çam, Aynühayat Uybadın, Josh Carney and Sonay Ban discuss Power Struggles in Cinema, especially in relation to censorship.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 Senem Duruel Erkılıç, Karen Smith, Ariana Vietina and Berceste Gülçın Özdemir discuss Cinema Spaces and Urban Transformation.

Here's more from our panel yesterday at #HoMERIstanbul2025! Thank you also to our panel chair, the fantastic Ana Rosas Mantecón, a long-term friend and associated member of the "Hollywood Memories" project!
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#HoMERIstanbul2025

We're at #HoMERIstanbul2025! Our panel was today and we're looking forward to the rest of the conference. It's so great to be back with the HoMER crowd and present the progress of our project. A big thanks to the organizers for having us!

#HoMERIstanbul2025 : Mélisande Leventopoulos, Özge Özyılmaz, Barçın Boğaç, Shakila Zamboulingame and Enes Akdağ discuss Cinema, Identity and Borders.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 is officially launched by Talitha Ferraz, Matthew Rule-Jones and Ayşe Tor Par.

#HoMERIstanbul2025 is underway with preconference workshops on the HoMER Vocabulary, mapping and postgraduate presentations.