GLOBAL CAPITAL CRITICISM AND NATIONAL CAPITAL REPRESENTATION IN CARS OF THE REVOLUTİON (2008) AND MASTER (2009)

Abstract

The Soviet Union disintegrated and the capitalization process accelerated in the world as the armament brought about by the Cold War resulted in favor of the Western Bloc. Transnational companies gained strength and began to weaken the competitiveness of third world countries. The mixed economic model that was tried to be implemented in the first years of the Republic of Turkey started to be gradually abandoned in the following years. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher apply modern conservative politics that has engulfed Turkey as well. Statism and social state started to decline, privatizations accelerated. In the 1980s, this atmosphere which also involves Turkey, has been intensively studied in films of social criticism. Coalition governments in the 1990s, Turkey has failed to achieve political and economic stability. In the 2000s, neo-liberal conservative policies accelerated, many institutions were taken over by foreign capital, and the state began to shrink. The national economic system has changed and transformed rapidly. It is seen that critical films in terms of national capital and national industry were few in the 2000s. Thus, in this study, Devrim Arabaları (2008) and Usta (2009) films will be analyzed in the context of ideological film criticism.