Imaginaries out of place : cinema, transnationalism and Turkey / edited by Gökçen Karanfil and Serkan Şavk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karanfil, Gökçen, editor.

Şavk, Serkan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Turkey.

Motion pictures.

Nationalism in motion pictures.

Nationalism--Turkey.

Nationalism.

Motion pictures and transnationalism--Turkey.

Motion pictures and transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""As new geographies of mobility and hybridity make the concept of national identity highly problematic, new questions emerge that challenge and destabilize our conventional ways of thinking. Where do migrants 'belong'? Are they members of a distant nation, or natives of the places in which they live? What kind of changes does the sense of 'Turkishness' undergo, and what does it mean to various Turkish communities living in various parts of the world? Most important of all, can emergent migran...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; AN INTRODUCTION FROM THE EDITORS; A TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXTS OF "NATIONAL" AND "TRANSNATIONAL"; TRANSFORMING HOSPITALITY; HABITATS OF MEANING; FROM TWO WORLDS TO A THIRD SPACE; THE LIMITATION OF URBAN SPACE IN THOMAS ARSLAN'S BERLIN TRILOGY; THE BLACK HUMOR WORLD OF MIGRANTS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO CULTURES; AT HOME IN THE NEW GERMANY?; WEDDING SCENES AS METAPHORS FOR HOMELAND; CENTRE AND PERIPHERY; FROM TURKISH GREENGROCER TO DRAG QUEEN; WOMEN IN TURKISH-GERMAN CINEMA; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6860-4

OCLC:

892799128