Burçak Evren
Encyclopedia
Burçak Evren is a Turkish
film historian, author, journalist
, researcher, and film critic. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Sinematürk film magazine published in Istanbul. He has also taught film
at the Film-TV Department, Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University
, Istanbul
.
Evren was born in 1947 in Istanbul
where he studied at the Faculty of Law
and later at the Department of Classical Archaeology
and Prehistory
in the Faculty of Literature
, Istanbul University
from which he graduated. He began to work as journalist
in 1969 while he was still a university student. He worked as news design
er, art director
, editor
for art pages, desk editor, publication coordinator, editor-in-chief and film critic at Turkish newspapers such as Dünya, Yeni İstanbul, Yeni Ortam, Politika, Vatan, Güneş, Hürriyet
, Cumhuriyet
, Milliyet
, Pazar Postası and also at Gelişim Yayınları (Gelişim Publishing).
Evren contributed to more than 30 encyclopedia
s, including Meydan Larousse, Oksford, Türkiye and İstanbul, writing entries related to film and arts. He was president and director of the first and second editions of the International Silk Road Film Festival in Bursa in 2006 and 2007. He also has co-written the screenplay
of the 2006 Turkish documentary film
Troia with Sevinç Baloğlu.
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
film historian, author, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, researcher, and film critic. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Sinematürk film magazine published in Istanbul. He has also taught film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
at the Film-TV Department, Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University
Marmara University
Marmara University is a public university in Turkey. Situated in Istanbul, Marmara University has succeeded in becoming the second largest university in the whole country...
, Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
.
Biography
BurçakBurçak
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Evren was born in 1947 in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
where he studied at the Faculty of Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
and later at the Department of Classical Archaeology
Classical archaeology
Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the great Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about in Latin and Greek texts...
and Prehistory
Prehistory
Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...
in the Faculty of Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, Istanbul University
Istanbul University
Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...
from which he graduated. He began to work as journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
in 1969 while he was still a university student. He worked as news design
News design
News design is the process of arranging material on a newspaper page, according to editorial and graphical guidelines and goals. Main editorial goals include the ordering of news stories by order of importance, while graphical considerations include readability and balanced, unobtrusive...
er, art director
Art director
The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
, editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
for art pages, desk editor, publication coordinator, editor-in-chief and film critic at Turkish newspapers such as Dünya, Yeni İstanbul, Yeni Ortam, Politika, Vatan, Güneş, Hürriyet
Hürriyet
-External links:* * ** * *...
, Cumhuriyet
Cumhuriyet
Cumhuriyet is a centre-left Turkish daily newspaper, founded on May 7, 1924 by journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu. Based in Istanbul, it has been situated since October 17, 2005 in Mecidiyeköy. Cumhuriyet was the last newspaper to leave the old press district Cağaloğlu...
, Milliyet
Milliyet
Milliyet is a major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950.-History:Milliyet came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950...
, Pazar Postası and also at Gelişim Yayınları (Gelişim Publishing).
Evren contributed to more than 30 encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
s, including Meydan Larousse, Oksford, Türkiye and İstanbul, writing entries related to film and arts. He was president and director of the first and second editions of the International Silk Road Film Festival in Bursa in 2006 and 2007. He also has co-written the screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
of the 2006 Turkish documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Troia with Sevinç Baloğlu.
Works on film
- Evren, Burçak. (1990). Türk Sinemasında Yeni Konumlar. Broy Yayınları, İstanbul.
- Evren, Burçak. (1995). Türkiye'ye Sinemayı Getiren Adam Sigmund Weinberg. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul. ISBN 975-325-054-1
- Evren, Burçak; Asena, Duygu. (1995). Yeşilçam'la Yüzyüze. Açı Yayınları, İstanbul. ISBN 978-975-8009-13-8
- Evren, Burçak. (1997). Değişimin Dönemecinde Türk Sineması. Antrakt, İstanbul.
- Evren, Burçak. (1998). Eski İstanbul Sinemaları Düş Şatoları. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul. ISBN 975-325-481-4
- Evren, Burçak. (2006). İlk Türk Filmleri. Es Yayınları, İstanbul. ISBN 975-97887-1666-5
- Evren, Burçak. (2006). Türk Sinema Yönetmenleri Sözlüğü. Altın Portakal Kültür ve Sanat Yayınları, Antalya. ISBN 9944-5665-3-5
- Evren, Burçak. (2006). Aytaç Arman. Altın Portakal Kültür ve Sanat Yayınları, Antalya. ISBN 975-00240-6-0
- Evren, Burçak (2009). Altın Koza 40. Yıl Onur Ödülleri Kataloğu. Altın Koza Yayınları, Adana. ISBN 978-605-60411-4-3.
- Evren, Burçak (March 2009). Macit Koper. Dünya Kitle İletişimi Araştırma Vakfı Yayınları (10), Ankara. ISBN 978-975-96524-8-7.
Other works
- Evren, Burçak. (1994). Galata Köprüleri Tarihi. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul. ISBN 9755061689
- Evren, Burçak. (1996). Eski İstanbul'da Kahvehaneler. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul. ISBN 978-975-325-240-9
- Evren, Burçak; Can, Dilek G. (1997). Yabancı Gezginler ve Osmanlı Kadını. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul. ISBN 97532545987
- Evren, Burçak. (1998). 20'li Yılların Bozkır Kasabası Ankara. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul. ISBN 978-975-313-035-6
- Evren, Burçak. (1999). Osmanlı Esnafı. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul. ISBN 975-6817-29-1 (Published translation: (2001) Ottoman Craftsmen and their Guilds, Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul. ISBN 975-6770-12-0)
- Evren, Burçak. (2000). İstanbul'un Deniz Hamamları ve Plajları. İnkılap Kitabevi, İstanbul. ISBN 978-975-10-1638-6
- Evren, Burçak. (2005). Surların Öte Yanı Zeytinburnu. Zeytinburnu Belediyesi, İstanbul. ISBN 975-92356-0-9