Daily life in the 1960's Turkey and reflections on cinema

ABSTRACT Although it is a heard word too often, everyday life is a notion that is not worried as philosophic and academical. The reason of this is that everyday life has monotony and ordinary events as a content. But this notion is thought to involve deeper research. Besides, after industrial evolution, everyday life practices of communities have changed radically. Communal living is shaped by job and duplicate production processes. Thus causes communal living to accelerate and became vulgar. As a result of process mentioned, though individuals' everyday works became easy, they have difficulties explaining life and values. The world of thought conceptualizes this life as modernity. The research of everyday life aims to study the smallest units of life in all its parts and to make a deduction about whole life. Being an inclusive notion of everyday life requires to be examined with an inclusive research. So this research tries hard to explain the content of notion consulting subsidiary areas such as history, sociology, psychology, philosophy and literature. As a result of determination, it is tried to be completed with the cinema which is the one of the most surrounding art branches. The process that the research focuses is between 1960 and 1970. In this era, everyday life practices and the content of these practices have become object of curiosity. However, topic research has required deeper literature scanning due to reasons mentioned above. However, at writing stage, it is taken care of not moving away essence of the matter and not complicating the matter. The artists are the people who interpret the time they are in – oddly, but actually- the most objectively. Art works carry the knowledge of the truths of the human soul even though they are works created entirely from personal perspective. For art cannot be produced without associating it with both the collective unconscious beyond time and the individual and social consciousness of the time that is experienced. Hence, art is a resource as valuable as scientific researches for researchers who investigate the facts of any time. With this perspective in mind, for everyday life information, making use of Turkish cinemas' films has become one of the main purposes. Key Words: 1960s, Turkey, Everyday Life, Cinema, Modernity