The Politics of Cultural Representation

Turkish–German Encounters

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ID6262170
AuthorsRob Burns (0000-0001-5614-7624, University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume16
Issue3
Pages358-378
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGerman Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4008 • E-ISSN: 1743-8993
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644000701532718
OpenAlexW1997923670
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This article considers the development of Turkish-German cinema, situating it in relation to both the early manifestations of a diasporic literature in Germany and the attempts by filmmakers associated with the New German Cinema to represent the experience of migrants in the Federal Republic. These films were frequently criticised for reducing their protagonists to stereotypes, portraying the migrant as victim and focusing excessively on conflict of an intercultural or intracultural kind. The 1990s saw the emergence of a younger generation of Turkish directors in Germany intent on breaking away from this 'cinema of the affected' by not foregrounding the problematisation of alterity. The article concludes by examining the recent work of one of these directors, Thomas Arslan, and assesses its success in representing 'life in, as well as between, two cultures

Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Art history · Foregrounding · German · Hegemony · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Turkish · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Law

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