Türk televizyonunda sınıf tasviri: İki drama dizisinin orjinal ve yeni yapımlarının karşılaştırılması

This thesis examines how the lifestyles of different classes are portrayed in two Turkish television series,Aşk-ı Memnu and Yaprak Dökümü, through a comparative analysis of their oldand new versions. Notions of Weber?s social status, Bourdieu?s taste, habitus and field, and Lamont?s analysis of morality were employed to understand how class formations wererepresented in the TV series. In addition, Read (2009) and Lazzarato (2009)?s discussions that follow a Foucauldian analysis were used to explain the relationship between class depictions and neoliberal portrayals in two TV series. Content analysis was utilized to investigate this relationship and analyze the established hypotheses. It was argued that the new versions of the TV series would depict neoliberal values more in higher class lifestyles, and episodes that represented lower class lifestyles would not be affected by the changes in the neoliberal era. In addition, the new versions would not portray the morality of lower class lifestyles less, but adjustthe depiction of upper class lifestyles in accordance with the features of the neoliberal era, due to its promotion of profit-maximization, calculation, self-interest and depoliticization. In a parallel vein, a more extensive of upper class lifestyles was expected in the new versions of the TV series. Significant results in support of the established hypotheses were found only with regards to Aşk-ı Memnu. The ways in which Yaprak Dökümü deviates from the perused literature will bediscussed through its unique narration, and the effects of producers? aim to increase ratings.