In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape.  Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and rewriting American gangster narratives, Kung Fu action films, and paralleling other emergent European minority cinemas. This, the first book-length study on the topic, will function as an introduction to this emergent and growing cinema and offer a survey of important films and directors of the last two decades. In addition, it intervenes in the theoretical debates about Turkish German culture by engaging with different methodological approaches that originate in film studies.

Barbara Mennel is Associate Professor of German Studies and Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Introduction

PART I: CONFIGURATIONS OF STEREOTYPES AND IDENTITIES: NEW METHODOLOGIES

Chapter 1. My Big Fat Turkish Wedding: From Culture Clash to RomcomDaniela Berghahn

Chapter 2.The Oblivion of Influence: Transmigration, Tropology, and Myth-Makingin Feo AladasWhen We LeaveDavid Gramling

Chapter 3. The Minor Cinema of Thomas Arslan: A ProlegomenonMarco Abel

PART II: MULTIPLE SCREENS AND PLATFORMS: FROM DCOUMENTARY AND TELEVISION TO INSTALLATION ART

Chapter 4. Roots and Routes of the Diasporic Documentarian: A Psychogeography of Fatih AknsWe Forgot to Go BackAngelica Fenner

Chapter 5. Gendered Kicks: Buket Alakuss and Aysun Bademsoys Soccer FilmsIngeborg Majer-OSickey

Chapter 6.Location and Mobility in Kutlu Atamans Site-specific Video InstallationKüba Nilgun Bayraktar

Chapter 7. Turkish for Beginners: Teaching Cosmopolitanism to GermansBrent Peterson

Chapter 8. Only the Wounded Honor Fights: Züli Aladas Rageand the Drama of the Turkish German PerpetratorBrad Prager

PART III: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS: STARS, THEATRES, AND RECEPTON

Chapter 9. The German Turkish Spectator and Turkish Language Film Programming: Karli-Kino, Maxximum Distribution, and the Interzone CinemaRandall Halle

Chapter 10. Mehmet Kurtulu and Birol Ünel: Sexualized Masculinities, Normalized EthnicitiesBerna Gueneli

Chapter 11. The Perception and Marketing of Fatih Akn in the German PressKarolin Machtans

Chapter 12. Hyphenated Identities: The Reception of Turkish German Cinema in the Turkish Daily PressAyça Tunç Cox

PART IV: THE CINEMA OF FATIH AKIN: AUTHORSHIP, IDENTITY, AND BEYOND

Chapter 13. Cosmopolitan Filmmaking: Fatih AknsIn JulyandHead-OnMine Eren

Chapter 14. Remixing Hamburg: Transnationalism in Fatih AknsSoul KitchenRoger Hillman and Vivien Silvey

Chapter 15. World Cinema Goes Digital: Looking at Europe from the Other ShoreDeniz Göktürk

Notes on Contributors Works Cited Index of Names Index of Films