Our Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Rıdvan Şentürk Was Granted The Cinema Research Award
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Prof. Dr. Rıdvan Şentürk, Head of the Visual Communication Design Department at our university’s Faculty of Communication, was awarded the Cinema Research Award by the Literature, Arts, and Culture Research Association (ESKADER).
The “ESKADER Culture and Arts Awards”, organized annually by the Literature, Arts, and Culture Research Association (ESKADER) and holding an important place in the world of culture, arts, and academia, have found their winners for 2024. The Cinema Research Award, one of the awards given to 21 individuals and institutions in 19 categories, was awarded to Prof. Dr. Rıdvan Şentürk, one of our university’s academics.
AWARDS CEREMONY IN APRIL 2025
Following an intensive evaluation process, the ESKADER Selection Committee deemed Prof. Dr. Rıdvan Şentürk’s work “Avant-Garde Cinema and Painting” worthy of an award in the field of Cinema Research. The awards will be presented to their recipients at a grand ceremony in April, as they are every year. We congratulate our esteemed professor on his achievements.
ABOUT AVANT-GARDE CINEMA AND PAINTING
Prof. Dr. Şentürk’s work “Avant-Garde Cinema and Painting,” which provides a solid basis for discussion on avant-garde art movements, was published in 2024. One of the elements that makes the book valuable is that it is published simultaneously with the first Turkish edition of Kitab-ul Menazır, written 1,000 years ago by Ibn al-Haytham, who is considered the father of optical science and, consequently, of optical-related visual arts such as cinema and photography, and is published as a companion piece by the same publisher. The work offers a profound perspective that facilitates the understanding of avant-garde movements, based on the fact that discussions of avant-garde cinema in our country have not found sufficient space within the art community and communication faculties.
