Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 St dte/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: Y ksel Yavuz's Kleine Freiheit/A Little Bit of Freedom (2003).- 5.0 Conclusion.
Synopsis
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, Y ksel 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.