The article titled
"Jean Baudrillard's Simulation Universe Film Simulacra: Three Examples from David Fincher's Cinema", written by Asst. Prof. Emre Doğan, Head of Radio, Television and Cinema Department, together with Asst. Prof. Murtaza Talha Altınkaya, was published in the new issue of Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences.
The summary of the study is below:
"In his simulation theory, which he created, Jean Baudrillard claimed that after World War II, the Western world transitioned to a new social order called the simulation universe, and that in this universe, reality died and was replaced by simulacra that were very similar to it. One of the subjects that Baudrillard, who criticizes and analyzes in many media from politics to science, from daily life practices to the media, touches upon most in his texts is, in his own words, art, which fell victim to the perfect murder. Baudrillard, who also included cinema in his criticisms based on art and the art world, especially modern art, stated that cinematographic illusion was lost through perfection and that movies were transformed into a type of cinema simulation that could be called film simulacra. The aim of this article is to analyze American director David Fincher's films Zodiac (2007), The Social Network (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) through the concept of film simulacra, which can be considered as a cinematic and cinematographic output of Baudrillard's philosophy, and to make a Baudrillardian critique of Fincher's cinema through these films. The study was written with the descriptive method, and the mise-en-scene criticism, one of the film criticism approaches, was used in the films constituting the sample. The result obtained in the study is that Fincher's films are concrete examples of the concept of film simulacra, which is an output of Baudrillard's cinema criticism within the framework of simulation theory, due to their mise-en-scene elements. "
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We congratulate Asst. Prof. Emre Doğan and wish him continued success.
