Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema: Work, Globalisation and Politics Beyond Representation

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Thomas Arslan’s Berlin Trilogy (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 25-64 Christian Petzold’s Jerichow (2009) (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 65-78 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 Documentary and the Question of Representation (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 81-91 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) (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 93-112 Postrepresentationalism as a Political Strategy: Aysun Bademsoy’s Am Rand der Städte/On the Outskirts (2006) and Ehre/Honour (2011) (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 113-137 Machinic Semiotics: Harun Farocki’s Aufstellung/In-Formation (2005) (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 139-151 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Viewing Against the Grain: Feo Aladag’s Die Fremde/When We Leave (2010) (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 155-173 Queering the Ethics of Migration: Yüksel Yavuz’s Kleine Freiheit/A Little Bit of Freedom (2003) (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 175-191 Conclusion (Gozde Naiboglu)....Pages 193-197 Back Matter ....Pages 199-217