{"id":7107,"date":"2011-01-08T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2011-01-08T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T15:59:51","slug":"expecting-a-fatwa-on-cinema-studies-in-three-two-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/expecting-a-fatwa-on-cinema-studies-in-three-two-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Expecting a fatwa on cinema studies in three, two, one &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t imagine how brave (or foolhardy) you would have to be as a professor to approve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-12142630?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">this thesis proposal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Three academics at one of Turkey&#8217;s top universities have been sacked after a student made a pornographic film for his dissertation project.<\/p>\n<p>Bilgi University in Istanbul has shut its film department, and police are looking into possible criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>A number of other academics have protested against the response.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has drawn attention to the clash between traditional values and the sometimes experimental arts and lifestyles practised in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>As well as the firing of the three academics &mdash; who are now being investigated by the police &mdash; the entire Communications Faculty has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ozgun, and the former student who starred in his film, have gone into hiding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t imagine how brave (or foolhardy) you would have to be as a professor to approve this thesis proposal: Three academics at one of Turkey&#8217;s top universities have been sacked after a student made a pornographic film for his dissertation project. Bilgi University in Istanbul has shut its film department, and police are looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,28,370,11],"tags":[652,122,249],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media","category-middle-east","category-religion","tag-istanbul","tag-movies","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1QD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}