Çağdaş Televizyon Anlatılarında Deliliğin Sunumu: Kırmızı Oda Dizisi Örneği Presentation of Madness in Contemporary Television Narratives: The Example of the Red Room Series

Citation

ALÇAYIR M (2024) Çağdaş Televizyon Anlatılarında Deliliğin Sunumu: Kırmızı Oda Dizisi Örneği Presentation of Madness in Contemporary Television Narratives: The Example of the Red Room Series [Presentation of Madness in Contemporary Television Narratives: The Example of the Red Room Series]. Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 11 (1), pp. 227-251. https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.1346838

Abstract
This study focuses on the discourses of madness in local television narratives by problematizing the cultural representation of madness as a matter of social inclusion. This study focuses on the extent to which these discourses construct empowering or disempowering meanings for individuals with lived experiences. Empowering meanings highlight the agency of individuals with lived experience and the collective dimensions of the experience, while disempowering tend to objectify and individualize individuals and their experiences. Popular narratives of madness are dominated by a medical discourse considering madness as a disease or anomaly. However this approach is criticised by the disciplines that suggest viewing madness through a sociocultural perpectie for individualizing madness and obscuring the collective aspects and complexity of the experience. Studies show that in recent years, representations that reveal different aspects of experience beyond medical discourse have appeared in television and cinema narratives. Building on this literature, this study focuses on Kirmizi Oda, as one of the most populare narratives. Using the critical perspective presented by disability studies, present research analyses the text through the Critical Discourse Analysis method. The findings show that although Kirmizi Oda offers some alternative discourses beyond cliches, it reproduces the dominant discourses by framing madness as an illness, anomaly and a personal tragedy. Using the critical perpective of disability studies in amalyzing representations of madnes, this study aims to examine the meanings produced about madness with the themes of discrimination, access and advocacy

Keywords
Madness; Mental disability; Disability studies; Critical Discourse Analysis; Kirmizi Oda

Journal
Erciyes İletişim Dergisi: Volume 11, Issue 1

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