The use of Turkish culture and folk science elements in the movies directed by Yüksel Aksu

Culture is a dynamic that holds society together and is the most important unifying element of social structure. On the other hand, folk culture is a composite that forms the people's common feelings, thinking, and mentality. The cultural patterns bring all segments of society together on a common ground. Its essence is continuity, consensus, experimentation, common spirit, and consciousness. The preservation, protection, and survival of folk culture, which gives a privileged position to the society it represents with its content and distinguishes it from others in this way, is of great importance for the future of society. The protection of culture, the review of both oral, written, and visual parts, and the steps to determine how culture is included in these genres should be given due importance. This protection can only be possible through specific instruments that mirror the society's values, structure, past, and future. Undoubtedly, one of these instruments is cinema. Cinema's relationship with culture is based on direct transmission and reflection. The images that fall on the cinema screen are a combination and essence of culture and, therefore, of folk culture. Games, practices, rituals, beliefs, ceremonies, etc., belonging to folk culture, are indispensable and invaluable materials for cinema. When these materials are successfully processed by a good screenwriter and director, a field compilation, archive, corpus, and monograph work can emerge. From this point of view, in this study, the use of Turkish culture and folklore in the films "Dondurmam Gaymak," "Entelköy Efeköy'e Karşı," "İftarlık Gazoz" directed by Yüksel Aksu is analyzed within the framework of Sedat Veyis Örnek's classification study "Cadres of Folklore Products" in his book "Turkish Folklore."