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Role of Television in Consumer Society, Night Train and About a Boy

Tüketim Toplumunda Televizyonun Rolü, Gece Yarısı Treni ve Bir Erkek Hakkında

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189–204
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2017-12-26
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As consumerism and culture ideology’s most crucial ‘apparatus’, television triggers various negative attitudes leading to eventual peak, suicide, just like the study shows in lives of the novels’ characters.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Since the Frankfurt School, essential points of cultural studies have changed rapidly up to zeitgeist.
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Key Findings & Data:This study examines relation between television and ideology in respect of their effects for fictional characters of Martin Amis’s Night Train (1997) and Nick Hornby’s About a Boy (1998).
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Conclusion & Impact:As consumerism and culture ideology’s most crucial ‘apparatus’, television triggers various negative attitudes leading to eventual peak, suicide, just like the study shows in lives of the novels’ characters.
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⚙️Variables:Tüketim toplumu · popüler kültür · televizyon

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Since the Frankfurt School, essential points of cultural studies have changed rapidly up to zeitgeist. While cinema and radio were primary concerns of those studies for their early stages, television and internet have replaced them in our postmodern world. However, academic researches for cultural effects of internet are still fresh; television has been subjected even to criminology after Birmingham School. This study examines relation between television and ideology in respect of their effects for fictional characters of Martin Amis’s Night Train (1997) and Nick Hornby’s About a Boy (1998). When Amis’s Mark and Jennifer realizes author’s dystopic world, they evaluate suicide as a foremost option. On the other hand, Hornby’s cosmos is clearly more open to utopian dreams but there is still suicide in his world. Within consumer society and popular culture all the characters of the novels live, society is more prone to suicide and crimes for Strain theories. As consumerism and culture ideology’s most crucial ‘apparatus’, television triggers various negative attitudes leading to eventual peak, suicide, just like the study shows in lives of the novels’ characters.

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Frankfurt Okulun’dan bu yana kültürel çalışmaların ana unsurları zamanın ruhuna göre hızla değişmiştir. Erken dönemde sinema ve radio bu çalışmaların temelindeyken, post-modern dünyada televizyon ve internet bunların yerini almıştır. İnternetin kültürel etkileri üzerine akademik çalışmalar hala çok taze olsa da; Birmingham Okulun’dan sonra televizyon kriminolojiye bile konu olmuştur. Bu çalışma, televizyon ve ideoloji arasındaki ilişkiyi Martin Amis’ in Gece Yarısı Treni (1997) ve Nick Hornby’nin Bir Erkek Hakkında (1998) kitaplarındaki karakterlere etkisi bağlamında incelemeyi amaçlar. Mark ve Jennifer Amis’in distopik dünyasının farkına vardıklarında, intiharı öncelikli bir seçenek olarak değerlendirmeye başlarlar. Hornby’nin dünyası ise ütopik rüyalara çok daha açıktır fakat yine de bu dünyada intihar da vardır. Gerilim teorisine göre, romanların tüm karakterlerinin içinde yaşadığı tüketim toplumunda ve popüler kültürde, toplum intihara ve suça daha çok meyillidir. Tüketim ve kültür ideolojisinin en hayati aparatı olan televizyon bu çalışmanın karakterlerin hayatlarında gösterdiği gibi toplumu nihai noktası intihar olan bir çok olumsuz davranışlara iter.

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ARPA, H. İ. (2017). Role of Television in Consumer Society, Night Train and About a Boy. Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 41 - Sayı: 2, 189–204. https://ajindex.com/articles/14846

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