Overview

This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany. Engaging with materialist philosophies of process, it offers analyses of films by Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, Aysun Bademsoy, Seyhan Derin, Harun Farocki, Yüksel Yavuz and Feo Aladag. Shifting the focus from the longstanding concerns of integration, identity and cultural conflict, Gozde Naiboglu shows that these films offer new expressions of lived experience under late capitalism through themes of work, social reproduction, unemployment and insecure work, exhaustion and precarity, thereby calling for a rethinking of the established ideas of class, community and identity.

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Author:   Gozde Naiboglu
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319644301

ISBN 10:   3319644300
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   23 January 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.0 Introduction.- 2.0 Part I: The Berlin School.- 2.1 Thomas Arslan’s Berlin Trilogy.- 2.2 Christian Petzold’s Jerichow (2009).- 3.0 Part II:  Documentary Film.- 3.1 Documentary and the Question of Representation.- 3.2 Materiality of Labour: Thomas Arslan’s Aus der Ferne/From Far Away (2006) and Seyhan Derin’s Ben Annemin Kızıyım/I Am My Mother’s Daughter (1996).- 3.3 Post-Representationalism as a political strategy: Aysun Bademsoy’s Am Rand der Städte/On the Outskirts (2006) and Ehre/Honour (2011).- 3.4 Machinic Semiotics: Harun Farocki’s Aufstellung/In-formation (2005).- 4.0 Part III: Social Realism.- 4.1 Viewing against the grain: Feo Aladag’s Die Fremde/When We Leave (2010).- 4.2 Queering the Ethics of Migration: Yüksel Yavuz’s Kleine Freiheit/A Little Bit of Freedom (2003).- 5.0 Conclusion.     

Reviews

Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema is a compelling contribution to the study of Turkish German cinema ... while also broadening the field of transnational film studies, as well as the literature on European cinemas. Naiboglu develops a powerful materialist approach to the cinematic expressions of the agential capacity of migrant labour under neoliberalism, as well as to the political potential of film itself, and revises the binaries approaching migration in terms of the success or failure of integration. (Ecem Yildirim, Studies in European Cinema, May 3, 2022)

Author Information

Gozde Naiboglu is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Her publications have appeared in journals including Studies in European Cinema, Screen and Film Criticism. Her research interests include non-representational approaches to film and screen media, contemporary European Cinema, gender and sexuality studies, feminist materialisms and affect theory.

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