Kemal Sunal Comedy in TV and Cinema

Kemal Sunal Comedy in TV and Cinema has a privileged place in that it provides first-hand testimony not only to the master actor's identity on the big screen, but also to his intellectual knowledge about Turkish cinema, his production process and his understanding of comedy. In this respect, the book reveals Kemal Sunal's view of cinema not only as an actor, but also as a thinking and questioning cinema person.

His consultancy is Assoc. Prof. Dr. In Şükran Esen's study, 82 films and 4 television series in which Sunal appeared between 1972 and 1999 are discussed in detail under the titles "What is a Comedy?", "Kemal Sunal Comedy" and "Kemal Sunal's Life, Artist Personality and His Situation in the Media". While Sunal evaluates the social basis on which his films are based in the context of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s; It offers a comprehensive framework by including the opinions of critics, journalists and sociologists.

Kemal Sunal Comedy in TV and Cinema, while discussing the structural problems of Turkish cinema, the rise of television, the changing cultural climate and the influence of the ruling power on art, serves as a permanent reference source for both those who work on Turkish cinema and readers who want to get to know Kemal Sunal better.

Kemal Sunal's master's thesis, "Kemal Sunal Comedy in TV and Cinema", is not just a book in which an artist tells his own adventure; An academic study that deeply examines Turkey's social change, the transformation of Yeşilçam and the illuminating power of comedy.

Sunal uses the knowledge of the twenty-five years he devoted to cinema in this thesis, from the historical development of comedy genres to the socio-economic transformation of Turkish society from the 1970s to the 1990s; He meticulously covers a wide range of areas, from the conditions of the emergence of his own films to the understanding of comedy shaped in the age of television.

The artist's films; It offers a versatile perspective on the social function of comedy by examining it together with the opinions of critics, academics, journalists and colleagues. In this respect, the book is a comprehensive resource not only about Kemal Sunal's cinema, but also about the place of comedy in social memory in Turkey.