What is Orientalism

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The way the Occident imagines Asia, especially the Middle East, in a mysterious but ultimately inferior to the West. This attitude is rooted in the colonialist era and continues to shape the West’s socio-cultural and economic policies toward the non-Western continents, one that often exploits their natural and human resources. Learn more in: Engendering Orientalism: Fatih Akin's Head-On and The Edge of Heaven

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A point of view which tends to imagine, emphasize, exaggerate, and distort Arab cultures, civilizations, and peoples vis-à-vis those of other continent (particularly the West). Learn more in: Exploring U.S. Citizens' Perceptions of Foreign Media's Representations of America: A Systematic Review

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An academic discipline that exploring the East as well as a disinformative approach to the East. Learn more in: Orientalism in Turkish Political Election Campaigns

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A particular way of perceiving the Orient. The term is tied to the way in which the colonial West discovered, understood, represented, and subjugated the East as the ‘other’. In the academic circles, orientalism is not an abstract term to be studied but encompasses centuries-long practices of domination of the other. Learn more in: French Orientalism Representations of Ottoman in Caricatures in Le Petit Journal

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The projected image of the Orient. Learn more in: Virtual Orientalism/Imagined Dualism (VO/ID) Expansion: Examining the Mechanisms Behind the Objectification of Zen as an Aesthetic Style

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It is the explanatory term which is coined by dedicated literature scholar and critique Edward Said who adapted Michel Foucault’s discourses. Orientalism explains how European and North American (US & Canada) sees the Middle Eastern culture and how “West” tries to construct “East” with superior attitude using literature, arts, media, etc. Learn more in: Orientalist Representations of Antakya (Antioch-on-the-Orontes) in Digital Media Narrations

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It is a critical theory, which is reconsidered by E. Said and which describes the way the West represents the East. Learn more in: A Comparative Study Oriented Tourism Advertisements in Turkey: The Internality of the Oriental-Self

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'Orient' etymologically means 'east, orient'. Its origin is based on the word 'oriens' (sunrise). According to Western societies, languages, cultures, histories, geographies etc. of Eastern societies. It covers researches about. Learn more in: Post-Orientalist Comments by Contemporary Women Photographers

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The process of defining and promoting by West to the East. Learn more in: Projection of Orientalist Elements: White Man's Burden

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Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world, usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Learn more in: The Creation of Sustainable Orientalism in Cinema

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Orientalism is the term that applied to express east-west relations and interactions from past to present. As Edward Said specify it, orientalism is the prejudiced definition, imagination, and thoughts that the Western world has established about the Eastern world by putting itself in the center. Learn more in: Women's Images in Turkish Cinema in the Context of Orientalism: The Samples of Tight Dress

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It is a way of seeing that define, picturize, and distort non-Western cultures and worlds. Learn more in: The Demonization of Islam in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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West collecting the meanings, images and values it produced in economic, social and cultural terms for the East under a single frame. It is regarded as an academic discipline. Learn more in: Reflection of Orientalist Discourse on Netflix Turkey: The Protector

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Orientalism is the name given to all the Western-based research areas in which Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies, cultures, languages, and peoples are examined. Learn more in: Digital Games and Orientalism: A Look at Arab and Muslim Representation in Popular Digital Games

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It is a critical theory, which is reconsidered by E. Said and which describes the way the West represents the East. Learn more in: Otherization of Oriental Woman in Cinema

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It is the field of study where the west defines the east from its own perspective. Learn more in: Orientalist Approaches in Advertising: Sample Advertising With Nike's “What Will They Say About You?” Slogan

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Edward Said's concept includes the aim of dominating the East. It is a system of thought based on the definition of the traditions and rules of the East from their own framework by the Western government, intellectuals, and interpretation through marginalization. Learn more in: Analysis of Poster Designs of Turkish TV Series on Ottoman History: Resurrection Ertugrul and Magnificent Century Examples

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Images of the east and orientals in the eyes of westerners. The positioning the east as the other for the West to define itself. Learn more in: Searching for the East in the Shadow of the West: Layla M as the Portrait of an Oriental Woman in Modern Orientalist Discourse

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It is mainly seen as all of the western-based and western-centered research areas where all Eastern societies and cultures, languages and peoples are examined within the studies, named as Orientalism and Oriental Studies. However, some orientalists, such as Edward Said define the orientalism in the field of a study area of people who are excluded by the Westerners, regarded as the “other” and thrown into the background in each environment with prejudice and hostile eyes. Learn more in: The Otherization of Turkey in the Orientalist Discourse: Turkey and Orientalism

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Orientalism, as a way of thinking and an area of expertise, is a term expressing the varying historical and cultural relationship between Europe and Asia, specializing in the study of Eastern cultures and traditions. Learn more in: From Theory to Discussion Orientalism and History From Past to Present

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Western scholarly discipline of the 18th and 19th centuries that encompassed the study of the languages, literatures, religions, philosophies, histories, art, and laws of Asian societies, especially ancient ones. Learn more in: Reflections of Orientalism and Modernism in the Film Hamam by Ferzan Özpetek

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It is a way of thinking that Western civilization uses to define Eastern societies. Learn more in: Multiculturalism in Cinema in the Context of Popular Culture: Where Exactly Ferzan Özpetek Stands?

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In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West. Learn more in: The West-East From Two Children's Points of View: The Example of BBC-TRT

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It is a critical theory, which is reconsidered by E. Said and which describes the way the “West” discursively constructs and represents the “East.” Learn more in: Harem and Woman From Orientalist Pictures to the Cinema: Harem Suare

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The study of the history, Language, culture and tradition of the Middle East and Eastern nations. Learn more in: Orientalism and Hollywood: Reflection of India on Western Cinema

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Orientalism can be discussed within perspective of the former artistic and cultural production traditions that build the orientalistic discourse and the critical approach to that discourse with the works of Edward Said and following thinkers. According to academic perspective Orient is constructed by Europe as an Other in order to construct the self-Europe. Learn more in: The Transformation of Ion Perdicaris to Eden Perdicaris as a Retro Scenario and Orientalist Codes in Art: Woman and East “To Be Saved” From Eastern

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Defined by Edward Said in his book Orientalims (1978) AU34: The in-text citation "Orientalims (1978)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , the term refers to patronizing interpretations of the Middle East cultivated in the West, which may not only include portrayals of the East as underdeveloped and inferior, but also Romanticizing tendencies of the Orient as an imaginary space. Learn more in: Tropes of Transculturality: On Comparing Medieval Sicily and Castile

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Representation of the Eastern world in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude. Since the publication of Edward Said's “Orientalism” in 1978, the term is often used to refer to a general patronizing Western attitude towards the Middle Easter, Asia, and North Africa. Learn more in: Ornaments as Means of Communication: The Dresden Damascus Room and the Study of the Villa Hohenhof

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It describes the prejudiced view of the West towards the East. Learn more in: Representations of Masculinities in Gaya Jiji's Film Named My Favorite Fabric

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Orientalism, defined as the science of the East, is rooted in ancient times. Orientalism, which etymologically signifies the sunrise, is based on the Latin word oriens and is geographically used to name the Eastern geography, means seeking information about the East. Orientalism, which is based on the East-West opposition, is a branch of science that first emerged in the early 14th century by the Vienna Church Council in a number of universities to understand eastern languages and cultures. Learn more in: Orientalism, Islamophobia, and the Concept of Otherization Through Civil Conflict, Digital Platform Netflix: The Example of the Messiah Series

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A way of thinking and a mode of representation based on the ontological and epistemological distinction between Orient and Occident. Learn more in: Representing and Othering Oriental Women After 9/11: An Analysis of Body of Lies

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A Western-centric, field of research that studies the social structures, cultures, languages, histories, religions, and geographies of countries to the east of Europe, including Africa, Asia, the Near East, Middle East, and Far East. Learn more in: Orientalism Revisited: Orientalism as Fashion

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The design, image or illusion of “East” that is carried, transferred and reproduced in the collective memory of the Westerners. Learn more in: Reproducing Orientalism With Cinema: Aladdin (2019)

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The term is a set of discursive, systematic and essentialist scholarly and literary practices with political motivations that constructs an image of the mysterious, feminine Orient as the ‘Other’ to the rational, articulate, masculine of the Western ‘Self’. Learn more in: The Discursive Representation of Islam and Muslims in Movies

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Orientalism is a term that describes how Europeans represented unexplored territories in regions of the eastern or Islamic World. Places like Turkey, Greece, the Middle East and North Africa were framed as exoticized, fictionalized places. Learn more in: Orientalist Museum Exhibitions in UK as a New Media at the Turn of the 21st Century: Re-Orientalism of Orientalism

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In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. Learn more in: Eastern Male Image in Contemporary Oriental Media: The Novel and Movie of The Lustful Turk

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The design, image or illusion of “East” that is carried, transferred and reproduced in the collective memory of the Westerners. Learn more in: The Trial of Traditional Turkish Culture With the Auto-Orientalist Cultural Industry

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In short Western ideas about East. A thinking system that enables Europe-America centered thinking about the east. Learn more in: Orientalism From Past to Present, Traditional to Digital

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The vision of the Orient in the eye of the Westerners. Learn more in: Transmedia Storytelling in Advertising: The Mediator Between Orientalism and Occidentalism

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In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the West. Learn more in: The Construction of Orientalist Discourse in the Documentary Series on the Digital Broadcasting Platform Netflix