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Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema

Work, Globalisation and Politics Beyond Representation

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Gozde Naiboglu

    1. University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  • First English Language monograph to focus on contemporary Turkish German cinema

  • Offers new perspective on the cinema of labour migration from Turkey to Germany

  • Weaves together materialist philosophies of process and post-representational approaches to film in examining a broad array of fiction and non-fiction films

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Gozde Naiboglu
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Berlin School and Turkish German Cinema

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Thomas Arslan’s Berlin Trilogy

      • Gozde Naiboglu
      Pages 25-64

    3. Christian Petzold’s Jerichow (2009)

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      Pages 65-78

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 199-217
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About this book

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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“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) “Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema breaks new ground for the field of migrant film studies. Working through a broad range of post-unification fiction and documentary films, Gozde Naiboglu convincingly shows what is to be gained for our understanding of such films when approaching them not through the frameworks of representation, but by taking seriously such films’ capacity to generate affect and thus to participate in the constitution of contemporary social processes. What emerges from this methodological shift is how these films posit work as a “superior agential power” that links films by Thomas Arslan, Aysun Bademsoy, Harun Farocki and others to a broader context of European art cinema. Naiboglu’s carefully observed and well-researched analyses demonstrate how these post-Wall filmmakers redefine affective states such as fatigue and exhaustion as a vital corporeal force bearing the potential to resist neoliberal conditions of production and subjectivation.” (Marco Abel, Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, USA)

“Gozde Naiboglu’s Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema: Work, Globalisation and Politics Beyond Representation is the book many of us have been waiting for. It breaths fresh air into a stalled discourse by connecting labour—the central concern of late twentieth-century migrants from Turkey to West Germany—to twenty-first century issues of global politics. Such an innovative approach produces exciting and dynamic scholarship on contemporary Turkish German cinema.” (Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of German Studies and Cinema Studies, University of Florida, USA. Co-Editor of Turkish German Cinema for the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens, 2012)


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Gozde Naiboglu

About the author

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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