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Cilt 8, Sayı 54  Şubat 2019  (ISSN: 2146-9903, E-ISSN: 2147-3056)
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1550745740 READING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISTOPIA AND NEOCLASSIC ARCHITECTURE VIA THE MOVIE “WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY”

The Neoclassical architecture was based on the characteristics of the Ancient Roman architecture, transforming it into the spatial indicators of wealth, power and inevitably the concepts of authority. At this point, it forms especially the spaces of dystopia films based on ideology and society management. The aim of this study is to examine the content of the relationship between the concept of dystopia and neoclassical architecture. The study object of this study is the movie “What Happened to Monday” co-produced by France, Belgium, UK and USA in 2017. The film was chosen because it had a strong architectural expression and clearly understood the relationship between dystopia and neoclassical architecture through its spatial construct. In this context, firstly the concept of dystopia and the emergence of neoclassical architecture and the attitude of representation are explained. In the light of these explanations, the relationship between dystopia and neoclassical architecture is examined through the movie “What Happened to Monday”. Architecture has a strong representation in urban space. Therefore, the architectural styles of the selected places in cinematographic narration should be determined in a way to strengthen the context of the story.