- Uluslararası Türk Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi
- Vol: 2023 Issue: 20
- The Management of Natural Disasters in Cinema: The Movie "2012"
The Management of Natural Disasters in Cinema: The Movie "2012"
Authors : Tolgay Durmuş
Pages : 64-95
Doi:10.46778/goputeb.1247935
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Publication Date : 2023-03-29
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Nature offers many opportunities but also poses many risks. Opportunities offered by nature are characterized as petroleum resources, natural resources, or energy resources. People must deal with natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, avalanche, landslide, erosion etc.). Education is critical to introduce these disasters and raise public awareness. Movies are an appropriate medium for promoting disaster education and raising public awareness. Cinema is used to communicate messages or meanings. Movies are a powerful tool for educating people about what to do before, during, and after a disaster. Through signifiers and discourses, movies can teach people how to cooperate with the government during disasters and how to manage them. This study focused on the movie \"2012,\" which depicts more than one natural disaster. The movie was selected using purposive sampling. We chose this movie because we think that its visual, auditory, and textual components can show people what they should do before, during, and after disasters and how they can effectively manage them. We analyzed the disaster-related signs in the movie using the method of semiotic analysis based on Roland Barthes\' binary relation configuration of denotation and connotation. The auditory indicators in the movie are supported by discourse analysis.Keywords : Afet Eğitimi, Afet Yönetimi, Göstergebilim Analiz, Sinema, Film.