Zone of Interest: A Semiotic Analysis on Lebensraum Politics and Cold-blooded Fascism

Kamer İncedursun

Makale detayları

Zone of Interest: A Semiotic Analysis on Lebensraum Politics and Cold-blooded Fascism

Yazarlar:

Kamer İncedursun

Yayıncı:

Hakan YILMAZ

Ana Başlıklar:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer) | Sinema (Diğer)

Dergi:

Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 3, pp.146-163

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2025

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001348758

pISSN:

2148-2292

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Özet:

 Within the framework of this study, the film Zone of Interest 2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer will be semiotically analysed in the context of the mental and spatial poetics of fascism. If cinema and film studies have a social ideal, it is to try to understand and explain the subject-object processes that historically lead to the tragedies and upheavals of humanity from cultural, psychological, sociological and ideological aspects. The film Zone of Interest takes an observant look at the prototype of Nazi everyday life through Rudolf Höss and his family, who were the long-time administrators of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the symbol of the genocide process during the Second World War. The story, which takes place in a building complex Auschwitz that is the concrete output of the Lebensraum policy, which shows what is beautiful and good in a utopian sense for Nazism, is extremely important in terms of showing the mentality of the people who rely on this policy. Coined in 1901 by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, the term Lebensraum, which means the possession of the necessary resources for a nation to be self-sufficient, was actively used in the following years, especially by Adolf Hitler, as a political discourse legitimising the occupation and plunder policy of Nazism, and was accepted by almost all Nazi supporters without any moral objection. The film, in summary, deals with the morally depraved mentality of the people who are seduced by the politics of blood and land based on the utopia of Lebensraum.

 Within the framework of this study, the film Zone of Interest 2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer will be semiotically analysed in the context of the mental and spatial poetics of fascism. If cinema and film studies have a social ideal, it is to try to understand and explain the subject-object processes that historically lead to the tragedies and upheavals of humanity from cultural, psychological, sociological and ideological aspects. The film Zone of Interest takes an observant look at the prototype of Nazi everyday life through Rudolf Höss and his family, who were the long-time administrators of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the symbol of the genocide process during the Second World War. The story, which takes place in a building complex Auschwitz that is the concrete output of the Lebensraum policy, which shows what is beautiful and good in a utopian sense for Nazism, is extremely important in terms of showing the mentality of the people who rely on this policy. Coined in 1901 by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, the term Lebensraum, which means the possession of the necessary resources for a nation to be self-sufficient, was actively used in the following years, especially by Adolf Hitler, as a political discourse legitimising the occupation and plunder policy of Nazism, and was accepted by almost all Nazi supporters without any moral objection. The film, in summary, deals with the morally depraved mentality of the people who are seduced by the politics of blood and land based on the utopia of Lebensraum.

 Within the framework of this study, the film Zone of Interest 2023, dir. Jonathan Glazer will be semiotically analysed in the context of the mental and spatial poetics of fascism. If cinema and film studies have a social ideal, it is to try to understand and explain the subject-object processes that historically lead to the tragedies and upheavals of humanity from cultural, psychological, sociological and ideological aspects. The film Zone of Interest takes an observant look at the prototype of Nazi everyday life through Rudolf Höss and his family, who were the long-time administrators of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the symbol of the genocide process during the Second World War. The story, which takes place in a building complex Auschwitz that is the concrete output of the Lebensraum policy, which shows what is beautiful and good in a utopian sense for Nazism, is extremely important in terms of showing the mentality of the people who rely on this policy. Coined in 1901 by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, the term Lebensraum, which means the possession of the necessary resources for a nation to be self-sufficient, was actively used in the following years, especially by Adolf Hitler, as a political discourse legitimising the occupation and plunder policy of Nazism, and was accepted by almost all Nazi supporters without any moral objection. The film, in summary, deals with the morally depraved mentality of the people who are seduced by the politics of blood and land based on the utopia of Lebensraum.

 Bu çalışma çerçevesinde Zone of Interest İlgi Alanı, 2023, Yön. Jonathan Glazer filmi faşizmin zihinsel ve mekânsal poetikası bağlamında göstergebilimsel olarak incelenecektir. Şayet sinemanın ve film çalışmalarının toplumsal anlamda bir ülküsü varsa o da tarihsel olarak insanlığın trajedilerine ve altüst oluşlarına yol açan özne-nesne süreçlerini kültürel, psikolojik, sosyolojik ve ideolojik yönlerden anlamaya ve anlatmaya çalışmaktır. Zone of Interest filmi İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında yaşanmış olan soykırım sürecinin sembolü olan Auschwitz toplama kampının uzun süre boyunca yöneticiliğini yapan Rudolf Höss ve ailesi üzerinden Nazi gündelik hayatının prototipine gözlemci bir bakış atmaktadır. Nazizm için ütopik anlamda güzelin ve iyinin ne olduğunu gösteren Lebensraum politikasının somut çıktısı olan bir yapı kompleksinde Auschwitz geçen hikâye; bu politikaya bel bağlayan insanların zihniyetlerini göstermesi açısından son derece önemlidir. 1901 yılında Alman coğrafyacı Friedrich Ratzel tarafından üretilen ve bir ulusun kendi kendine yetebilmesi için gerekli kaynaklara sahip olması anlamına gelen Lebensraum terimi, sonraki yıllarda özellikle Adolf Hitler tarafından Nazizmin işgal ve yağma politikasını meşrulaştıran politik bir söylem olarak aktif bir şekilde kullanılmış ve neredeyse tüm Nazi destekçileri tarafından herhangi bir ahlaki yadırgamayla karşılaşmadan kabul edilmiştir. Film özetle Lebensraum ütopyası üzerinde yükselmiş olan kan ve toprak politikasının baştan çıkardığı insanların maddiyata endeksli olan ahlaktan yoksun zihniyetini ele almaktadır.

Makale detayları

Zone of Interest: A Semiotic Analysis on Lebensraum Politics and Cold-blooded Fascism

Yazarlar:

Kamer İncedursun

Yayıncı:

Hakan YILMAZ

Ana Başlıklar:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer) | Sinema (Diğer)

Dergi:

Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 3, pp.146-163

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2025

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001348758

pISSN:

2148-2292

Zone of Interest

Lebensraum

Auschwitz

Semiotics

Jonathan GlazerZone Of İnterest

Lebensraum

Auschwitz

Göstergebilim

Jonathan Glazer

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Kamer İncedursun

Yayıncı: Hakan YILMAZ

Ana Başlıklar: İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer) | Sinema (Diğer)

Dergi: Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 3, pp.146-163

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 7/2025

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001348758

pISSN: 2148-2292

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Kamer İncedursun

Yayıncı:

Hakan YILMAZ

Ana Başlıklar:

İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer) | Sinema (Diğer)

Dergi:

Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi Vol.12 Issue 3, pp.146-163

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

7/2025

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001348758

pISSN:

2148-2292