Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe

Gueneli, Berna

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“…See Gueneli's discussion of European sounds in Fatih Akin's Im July-In July. They complement on the acoustic level our understanding of the spatial construction of a filmic multicultural community (Gueneli, 2019). The naming of Aylin's Turkish fiancé is no coincidence.…”

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Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Nickl¹

2020

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Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Nickl¹

2020

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“…Without dwelling on the dark side of the social issues they represent, Gueneli shows that the affiliation with transnational comedy culture offered Turkish German filmmakers such as Fatih Akin an increased repertoire of creative choices and styles beyond Turkish and German (Gueneli, 2019). Turkish German filmmakers like Akin derived it for films like Im Juli-In July (2000) and Solino (2002) from multicultural clash film comedies such as Richard Benjamin's Made in America (1993).…”

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Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Nickl¹

2020

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“…Just as the identity of Europe has been shifting, to the point where it may be hard for someone to talk about a single European identity, Akın’s filmic representations have been successful in capturing the postindustrial cityscapes of certain European cities that are ethnically mixed, where one can frequently come across graffiti on walls and franchising logos (see Mazierska & Rascaroli, 2003, p. 11). Moreover, as Gueneli (2019) states, the multiethnic tensions of Akın’s films are displayed aurally as well as visually. Thus, places are portrayed in dynamic relationships, as it will be explained later on, in contrast to them existing in isolation whilst being alongside each other (p. 7).…”

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Representation of European Utopia and its Discontents in the Films of Fatih Akın

Mert-Travlos¹

2021

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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In this article, I contemplate the questions of “Europeanness” through the prism of Fatih Akın’s films. His works can be considered as being representative of European urban cinema, as he skillfully questions “European identity” through the cosmopolitan urban landscape and multicultural identities he employs. Such scrutinization of identities, be it on the level of individual, national, and/or postnational, are emphasized by the sampling of various eclectic music genres. Just as the identity of Europe has been shifting, Akın’s filmic representations have been successful in capturing the postindustrial cityscapes of certain European cities. Moreover, through the music and sounds he deploys, Akın opens up a “third space.” This unfolds through his cinematography, which aurally and visually reflects on cityscapes, immigrant and nonimmigrant identities, as well as emotional geographies created through his various subjectivities. Such a third space is also constituted by the flow of desire of his characters through their temporal displacements between (European) cities such as Hamburg and Istanbul, and their attachments to “places” through music. I thus discuss how Akın engages with the meaning of “Europeanness” and European identity in relation to the “Other,”—in other words, how this director tackles the issue of identities through the socio-political and cultural spaces of his protagonists. This also overlaps with how he utilizes music in his movies, as well as how he represents the idea of a utopia and dystopia through the social world of his diasporic characters.

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Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe

Cited by 7 publications

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Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Representation of European Utopia and its Discontents in the Films of Fatih Akın

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