Intertextual Memory Montage and Popular Reflexivity: Star Archive and Masculine Disintegration in Paramparça (Shattered, 1985)
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This study examines Halit Refiğ’s Paramparça (Shattered, 1985) as a threshold text through which the cultural memory of Yeşilçam is reorganised. Employing close formal analysis, the study focuses on framing, editing, sound, performance, and flashback structures. The analysis demonstrates that the film’s flashbacks function not merely as narrative devices that explain the characters’ pasts. Rather, archival footage drawn from romantic films starring Tarık Akan and Gülşen Bubikoğlu in the 1970s reactivates star memory and transforms spectator memory into an active component of the narrative. To explain this intersection of cinematic memory, star archive, and fragmented temporality, the article proposes the concept of intertextual memory montage. By recirculating the cultural legacy of Yeşilçam, Paramparça simultaneously reveals the historical intersections and transformations of Turkish cinema.
Source: CINEJ Cinema Journal
Author: Tuna Kuzucan
Institution: Sinop University
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7166464812