1/10/10 → 20/02/15
1/10/10 → 24/11/17
Deniz Güneş Yardımcı has completed her PhD at the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2017. She has been a recipient of the College Reid Scholarship from the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway.
Her dissertation entitled The Representation of Turkish Immigration to Germany in German, Turkish German and Turkish Cinema takes a comparative approach to the representation of Turkish migrants and the Turkish diaspora in these three cinemas. While there is already a considerable amount of scholarly literature on the representation of Turkish guest-workers and Turkish diaspora culture in German cinema, a critical analysis of Turkish migration in Turkish cinema is still outstanding. Her thesis seeks to address this gap by offering an important complementary vantage point that also includes Turkish cinema. By drawing on theories of cultural hybridity, she invokes a critical framework that has hitherto not been systematically applied to the corpus of films under investigation and that, therefore, has the capacity to yield original insights into the filmic construction of migrant and diasporic identities. In her thesis, she argues that German, Turkish German and Turkish cinemas exhibit three distinctive perspectives when depicting Turkish migrants and address issues of cultural hybridity in different ways.
This study combines a literature review and the exploration of relevant theoretical concepts with a contextual and close textual analysis of selected films. The dissertation’s comparative approach, which focuses on the cinema of the receiving country, the cinema of the sending country, and transnational Turkish German cinema, seeks to make an original contribution to the existing body of scholarship on filmic representations of Turkish migration into Germany in these (trans)national film cultures.
After her double degree study at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany, Deniz Güneş Yardımcı graduated from the Department of Sociology and the Department of Film/ Department of Mass Communication and received her German Diplom in Sociology in 2009 (equivalent to Master of Arts) and her German Magister (equivalent to Master of Arts) in Film Studies in 2010. During her studies, she worked as an editorial assistant in the news department of ZDF German Television and as a freelance journalist for Business Week.
EDUCATION
Film Studies (1st major) / Media and Mass Communication (2nd major), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Sociology (major) / Political Science (minor) / European Migration (minor), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Media and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Sociology (major), Media Arts (minor), Political Science (minor), Philipps University Marburg; Germany
SCHOLARSHIPS/ RESEARCH FUNDINGS/ AWARDS
Conference Grant to present at the NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, Annual Conference, Paris, France, 29 June - 1 July 2017
7 months scholarship at:
Istanbul Bilgi University – European Institute
Supervisor: Prof. Ayhan Kaya
Istanbul Bilgi University – Faculty of Communication, Department of Arts and Cultural Management
Supervisor: Prof. Asu Aksoy Robins
Istanbul Bahceşehir University – Faculty of Communication, Department of Cinema and Television
Supervisor: Prof. Savaş Arslan
Maintenance Award and a Full College Research Fee Waiver for the 2013–2014 academic year.
Maintenance Award and a Full College Research Fee Waiver for the 2011–2012 and 2012-2013 academic years.
Conference Grant to present at the Turkish Migration Conference entitled: Turkish Migration in Europe: Projecting the next 50 years, Regents University, UK
Conference Grant to present at the PG Conference: Subversion and Resistance in German Cinema, University of Leeds, UK
Conference Grant to present at the BIGGS Conference: Integration 2.0, University of Bremen, Germany
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
English for Academic Purposes; Pre-Sessional English Language Programme
Critical Theory and Textual Analysis (MA1052); Convenor Dr. Jacob Leigh
Introduction to Sociology and Academic Working Skills; Convenor Prof. Dr. André Kieserling
OTHER
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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