Melodramatic Ends: <em>Winter Sleep</em> (<em>Kiş Uykusu</em>)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan puts the perspectives of Anatolia under pressure through the analysis of individuals' souls in the movie Winter Sleep (2014). He examines the “Western perspective” through the intellectuals (Aydın, Necla, and Levent) and the “religious and traditional perspective” of Anatolia through Imam Hamdi and Ismail. Ceylan gets individuals out of cultural and ideological codes and allows them to confront their own realities in Anatolian geography. This possibility can be expressed as a kind of Foucauldian violence. There is a violence of going into the deeper layers of the repressed, unresolved points. This is an inner violence that comes from stripping all code and layers. This internal violence is the result of the soul analysis that is reflected in Anatolia as a camera of people awakening in Winter Sleep. The immediacy of Anatolia's vital existence can only be grasped in the depths of vital experience itself.

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Total Cinema as Mode of Production

Realist Cinema as World Cinema ◽

10.5117/9789462987517_ch10 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lúcia Nagib

Keyword(s):

World Cinema ◽

Major Trend ◽

Winter Sleep ◽

Mode Of Production

Chapter 10 examines Bazin’s ‘myth of total cinema’ in light of a major trend in recent world cinema to focus on monumental landscapes, in films by Byambsuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (The Story of the Weeping Camel/ Ingen nulims, 2003), Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu, 2014), Mikhail Zvyagintsev (Leviathan/Leviafan, 2014), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep/ Kış uykusu, 2014), Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage/ Pájaros de verano, 2018), and Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (Bacurau, 2019). Taken together, these films testify to the remarkable convergence among filmmakers from the most disparate corners of the globe in resorting to expansive landscapes as a totalising cosmos and a sealed-off stage for the drama of existence, where realism manifests itself by means of real locations.

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Preservation of bone mass and biomechanical properties during winter sleep—the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) as a novel model species

Bone ◽

10.1016/j.bone.2010.12.001 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 878-884 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Petteri Nieminen ◽

Mikko A.J. Finnilä ◽

Juha Tuukkanen ◽

Timo Jämsä ◽

Anne-Mari Mustonen

Keyword(s):

Bone Mass ◽

Biomechanical Properties ◽

Nyctereutes Procyonoides ◽

Raccoon Dog ◽

Model Species ◽

Novel Model ◽

Winter Sleep

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Effect of winter sleep on pituitary-thyroid axis in American black bear.

AJP Endocrinology and Metabolism ◽

10.1152/ajpendo.1979.237.3.e227 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 237 (3) ◽

pp. E227 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

F Azizi ◽

J E Mannix ◽

D Howard ◽

R A Nelson

Keyword(s):

Black Bear ◽

Delayed Response ◽

American Black Bear ◽

Pituitary Thyroid Axis ◽

Serum T3 ◽

Serum T4 ◽

Thyroid Axis ◽

American Black ◽

Maximum Increment ◽

Winter Sleep

During winter sleep the black bear has decreased levels of serum total and free thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) and a prolonged, delayed response of serum thyrotropin (TSH) (bioassay) to thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH). Four weeks after the end of winter sleep, levels of serum thyroid hormones increase, and TSH response to TRH is short and brisk. Serum T4 and T3 rise after TRH administration both during and after winter sleep; however, the maximum increment in serum T3 is greater during winter sleep when the TSH rise is also prolonged and exaggerated. These observations suggest that transient hypothyroidism of possible hypothalamic origin occurs in bears during winter sleep.

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