Our graduate Ahmet Emin Bülbül's doctoral thesis has been published as a book.

Communication Sciences PhD Program graduate Ahmet Emin Bülbül's doctoral thesis titled The Feeling of Image: New Turkish Cinema and Phenomenology has been published. Leaning on the film-phenomenology tradition that emphasizes the importance of bodily experience in cinema, the book departs from the question: "Can the New Turkish Cinema offer a multi-sensory and material experience?". In addition, by revealing the main problems in the current film-phenomenology discipline, it is determined that the body of the viewer has a central position and therefore the technical, physical and photo-chemical processes that create the filmic image are neglected. Then, by combining Siegfried Kracauer's material approach and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology, material film-phenomenology was suggested as a new method, while Masumiyet (Zeki Demirkubuz, 1997), Yumurta (Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2007), Şimdiki Zaman (Belmin Söylemez, 2012), Baskın: Karabasan (Can Evrenol, 2015), Bulantı (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2015) and Kaygı (Ceylan Özgün Özçelik, 2017) are analyzed with this method. In the study, it has been shown that the senses of smell, touch and taste also have a place in the cinematic experience, which is embodied by the conjunction of the image with the body. The film medium establishes a multi-sensory experience that touches our perception, our entire body, and the world we live in, thanks to the symbolic images it produces both in the representational dimension and with the recording mechanism.