Burçak Evren (born 1947) is a
Turkish film historian, author,
journalist
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, researcher, and
film critic
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. He is currently the
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
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
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,
Istanbul
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Biography
Burçak Evren was born in 1947 in
Istanbul
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, where he studied at the Faculty of
Law
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and later at the Department of
Classical Archaeology and
Prehistory
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in the Faculty of
Literature
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,
Istanbul University from which he graduated. He began to work as a
journalist
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in 1969 while he was still a university student. He worked as
news design
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er,
art director,
editor for art pages, desk editor, publication coordinator,
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
and film critic at such
Turkish newspapers as Dünya, Yeni İstanbul, Yeni Ortam, Politika, Vatan, Güneş,
Hürriyet
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, it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...
,
Cumhuriyet
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,
Milliyet, Pazar Postası and also at Gelişim Yayınları (''Gelişim Publishing'').
Evren has contributed to more than 30
encyclopedias, 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 co-wrote the
screenplay of the 2006 Turkish
documentary film
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''Troia'' with Sevinç Baloğlu.
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Bibliography
Works on film
*Evren, Burçak. (1983). ''Türk Sinema Sanatçıları Ansiklopedisi''. Film-San Vakfı Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1990). ''Türk Sinemasında Yeni Konumlar''. Broy Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1993). ''Başlangıcından Günümüze Sinema Dergileri''. Korsan Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (April 1995). ''Oscar Ödülleri Tarihi (1927-1994)''. AD Yayıncılık, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1995). ''Sigmund Weinberg, Türkiye'ye Sinemayı Getiren Adam''. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1995). ''Türk Sinemasında Cinsellik''. AD Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1995). ''Türk Sinemasında İntiharlar ve Cinayetler Dosyası''. Vizyon Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak; Asena, Duygu. (1995). ''Yeşilçam'la Yüzyüze''. Açı Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1997). ''Değişimin Dönemecinde Türk Sineması''. Antrakt, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1998). ''Eski İstanbul Sinemaları Düş Şatoları''. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (2006). ''İlk Türk Filmleri''. Es Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (2006). ''Türk Sinema Yönetmenleri Sözlüğü''. Altın Portakal Kültür ve Sanat Yayınları, Antalya.
*Evren, Burçak. (2006). ''Aytaç Arman''. Altın Portakal Kültür ve Sanat Yayınları, Antalya.
*Evren, Burçak. (2006). ''Ustasız Usta Atıf Yılmaz''. Dünya Kitle İletişim Vakfı Yayınları, Ankara.
*Evren, Burçak. (2009). ''Altın Koza 40. Yıl Onur Ödülleri Kataloğu''. Altın Koza Yayınları, Adana. .
*Evren, Burçak. (March 2009). ''Macit Koper''. Dünya Kitle İletişimi Araştırma Vakfı Yayınları (10), Ankara. .
Other works
*Evren, Burçak. (1994). ''Galata Köprüleri Tarihi''. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1996). ''Eski İstanbul'da Kahvehaneler''. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak; Can, Dilek G. (1997). ''Yabancı Gezginler ve Osmanlı Kadını''. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1998). ''20'li Yılların Bozkır Kasabası Ankara''. Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (1999). ''Osmanlı Esnafı''. Milliyet Yayınları, İstanbul. (Published translation: (2001) ''Ottoman Craftsmen and their Guilds'', Doğan Kitapçılık, İstanbul. )
*Evren, Burçak. (2000). ''İstanbul'un Deniz Hamamları ve Plajları''. İnkılap Kitabevi, İstanbul.
*Evren, Burçak. (2005). ''Surların Öte Yanı Zeytinburnu''. Zeytinburnu Belediyesi, İstanbul.
References
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1947 births
Living people
Writers from Istanbul
Turkish film critics
20th-century Turkish historians
Turkish journalists
Istanbul University alumni
Academic staff of Marmara University
Hürriyet people
Cumhuriyet people
Milliyet people
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni
21st-century Turkish historians