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With Koca Dünya (2016) and Dört Köseli ܇gen (2018) as case studies, the presentation of the time element will be examined while trying to analyze how the characters and places are presented to the audience in terms of narratology in the film narrative.

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This study aims at analyzing the characters and spaces in films (writing case studies) in the framework of the Theory of Narrative in the context of the concepts of panopticon and chronotope. In the context of the relation of the spaces with the story, the spaces, where Bal separated according to the movement types of characters as steady spaces and dynamically functioning spaces, were determined according to the context in which the characters could use their existence on the basis of the qualities of the space in the narrative of the film. In this manner, the exterior and interior spaces that are presented in film narratives are analyzed in the context of Bal´s commentated facts and the facts that are grounded on. While examining the spaces in terms of the effect of these spaces on the plot, evaluations were made about the causal motivation of the spectator while watching the narrative. The concepts of panopticon and chronotope make it possible to examine the narrative elements in detail and try to explain how the process of the narrative interpretation of spectators is developed.

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Narratology - Film narrative - Space - Panopticon - Chronotope

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Berceste Gül‡in Özdemir completed her Ph.D. at Istanbul University in December 2016. Her research concerns feminist film theory, psychoanalytical film theory, Turkish cinema, independent cinema, digital cinema and characters´ representation in film narratives. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Istanbul University and instructing about television and cinema lessons.

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