Burçak Evren (born 1947) is a Turkish film historian, author,

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, researcher, and

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. He is currently the

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of the Sinematürk film magazine published in Istanbul. He has also taught

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at the Film-TV Department, Faculty of Fine Arts at

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Biography

Burçak Evren was born in 1947 in

, where he studied at the Faculty of

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and later at the Department of Classical Archaeology and

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in the Faculty of

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Istanbul University Istanbul University, also known as University of Istanbul (), is a Public university, public research university located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mehmed II on May 30, 1453, a day after Fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Constantinop ...

from which he graduated. He began to work as a

in 1969 while he was still a university student. He worked as

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er,

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for art pages, desk editor, publication coordinator,

and film critic at such Turkish newspapers as Dünya, Yeni İstanbul, Yeni Ortam, Politika, Vatan, Güneş,

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, Pazar Postası and also at Gelişim Yayınları (''Gelişim Publishing''). Evren has contributed to more than 30

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s, 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

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in 2006 and 2007. He also co-wrote the

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of the 2006 Turkish

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''Troia'' with Sevinç Baloğlu.

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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