TY - BOOK
T1 - DIASPORIC CINEMA: TURKISH-GERMAN FILMMAKERS WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES
AU - Tunc, Ayca
N1 - Ayça Tunç Cox has completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London with a dissertation entitled “Diasporic Cinema: Turkish-German Filmmakers with Particular Emphasis on Generational Differences”. She received her MA from Ege University, İzmir-Turkey with a thesis on “Independent Cinema: Alternative Tendencies in Turkish Cinema in the 1990s”. She worked as a Visiting Teaching Staff at Royal Holloway, Media Arts Department between 2008 and 2010, and has been working as a Research Assistant at Ege University, Faculty of Communication since 2002. Among her research interests are transnational cinema, diasporic cinema, national cinemas, European cinema, independent and alternative cinema, new Turkish cinema, ethnic and racial studies and cultural memory. She has published several articles and a book chapter on cinema, and has many short films.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This PhD dissertation seeks to explore the work and artistic trajectories of Turkish-German filmmakers, focusing in particular on generational differences between them. It privileges filmmakers with a migratory background, who have experienced dislocation, deterritorialisation and who have been marginalised. The thesis is based on the premise that the experience of migration and diaspora has had a manifest impact upon the creative process. Over forty films made by seventeen filmmakers between the 1980s and 2000s about the Turkish diasporic community and their experiences in Germany are analysed within four main thematic frameworks: changing narratives/discourses; the shift in the representation of space; the shift in the use of music; and the shift towards hybrid aesthetics and genres. This reasonably wide scope makes it possible to closely monitor presumed generational differences, and to draw attention to some lesser known filmmakers and their work. It also encapsulates the nascent third generation Turkish-German filmmakers, whose work has not yet been the subject of academic discussions. While this research project examines the concept of diasporic cinema in more general terms, it endeavours to apply key concepts such as the “dialogic imagination”, the “pleasures of hybridity” and the notion of an “accented style” to the specific case of contemporary Turkish-German cinema. In doing so, it combines a literature review, a textual analysis of the selected films and a critical content analysis of the pertinent news materials featuring Turkish-German filmmakers in the Turkish press.
AB - This PhD dissertation seeks to explore the work and artistic trajectories of Turkish-German filmmakers, focusing in particular on generational differences between them. It privileges filmmakers with a migratory background, who have experienced dislocation, deterritorialisation and who have been marginalised. The thesis is based on the premise that the experience of migration and diaspora has had a manifest impact upon the creative process. Over forty films made by seventeen filmmakers between the 1980s and 2000s about the Turkish diasporic community and their experiences in Germany are analysed within four main thematic frameworks: changing narratives/discourses; the shift in the representation of space; the shift in the use of music; and the shift towards hybrid aesthetics and genres. This reasonably wide scope makes it possible to closely monitor presumed generational differences, and to draw attention to some lesser known filmmakers and their work. It also encapsulates the nascent third generation Turkish-German filmmakers, whose work has not yet been the subject of academic discussions. While this research project examines the concept of diasporic cinema in more general terms, it endeavours to apply key concepts such as the “dialogic imagination”, the “pleasures of hybridity” and the notion of an “accented style” to the specific case of contemporary Turkish-German cinema. In doing so, it combines a literature review, a textual analysis of the selected films and a critical content analysis of the pertinent news materials featuring Turkish-German filmmakers in the Turkish press.
M3 - Doctoral Thesis
ER -