ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Turkish cinema in ecocinema studies by viewing Sellale as an example of Turkish film in which nostalgia takes an ecological import. Turkish films are known as immigration films portrayed Istanbul as the uncanny and cruel center of the struggle for life. Turkish films presents a reflective nostalgia that generates a glimpse at reflective eco-nostalgia and moves away from sentimental pastoralism into the possibilities of pastoralism. The chapter explores the different concerns in ecocinema studies through the concept of eco-nostalgia that connect the Turkish film scholarship on nostalgia with ecocinema studies in ecology. Asuman Suner and others recognize the pastoral narrative as common to popular Turkish cinema. Turkish cinema brings the attention of eco-film critics that opens the ecocinema studies to a national cinema and extending its attention to other popular Turkish films that engage a concern of ecocinema studies interest in national and transnational cinema.
