Migrant Bodies in the Land/City of 2000s Turkish Cinema

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2022

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Bayrakdar, Deniz

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Amsterdam Univ Press

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In this essay, I explore the land-, sea-, and cityscapes in six films (five Turkish and one Turkish German)-Bliss, The Wound, Riza, Broken Mussels, The Guest, and Seaburners-and their use of place and non-place. Hamid Naficy's concept of transitional space and Marc Auge's notion of non-place, based on Foucault's concept of heterotopia, will be the basis of the theoretical discussion. I focus on what I see as a major shift in the representation of the migrant experience in the Turkish cinema of the early and late 2000s, a shift from the land- and cityscapes to films whose setting is the seascape. This shift, I argue, corresponds to changes in the phases of migration that flow within and through Turkey, and both government policies and the public perception.

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Turkish cinema, migrant bodies, landscape, cityscape, seascape, transnational spaces, non-places, heterotopia

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193

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