1st Edition

Kedi A Docalogue

Edited By Jaimie Baron, Kristen Fuhs Copyright 2021
124 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

124 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

124 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This second book in the Routledge Docalogue series continues to model a new form for the discussion of documentary film, focusing on a new film and a different set of critical questions. Kedi (2016) is the first feature documentary by Turkish-American filmmaker Ceyda Torun. The film provides a window into the everyday lives of Istanbul street cats; their itinerant meanderings present a... Read more

Introduction: Kedi in context

Kristen Fuhs

Chapter 1: From Cat to Clowder: Kedi in the Anthropocene

Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa

Chapter 2: Tracking Cats and Voicing Dogs: Locating Street Animals in Kedi and Taskafa: Stories of the Street

Yiman Wang

Chapter 3: Foreign and Familiar: Kedi and the Musicality of Istanbul

Paul N. Reinsch

Chapter 4: Kedi Between the Local and the National

Melis Behlil

Chapter 5: Kedi: Crossover Documentary as Popular Art Cinema

Chris Cagle

Epilogue: A conversation with Kedi’s director, Ceyda Torun

Kristen Fuhs and Ceyda Torun

Biography

Jaimie Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (Routledge, 2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of Inappropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos.

Kristen Fuhs is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies; the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.