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- Title
WEDDING THEME IN FILMS FROM TURKISH-GERMAN DIRECTORS LIVING IN GERMANY.
- Authors
ODABAŞ, Battal
- Abstract
This article analyzes movies shot by German-Turkish directors that feature wedding-theme and have transnational qualities. This study is built upon the assumption that the wedding ritual is one of the most prominent examples of keeping alive the local culture. Germany, which is the problematic of this study, witnesses the identity crises of a new German generation with Turkish origins that had begun with Turkish workers refusing to return home and instead settling down where they had gone, temporarily at first, for work. The second and third generations who live in Germany and differ from previous generations and their problems now live with two identities in the place of one and also keep in touch with Turkey. Movies that discuss the transformation and marriage problems of sons and daughters of the workers who are stuck between tradition and modernity make up the focus of this article. Movies featuring weddings were included in the range of movies chosen for the study. Movies analyzed are shot in Germany and Turkey and the characters especially represent both countries. Thus, within the conceptual frame of this study, instead of definitions such as immigrant cinema or diasporic cinema, the term 'transnational cinema' is more explanatory. Movies by German-Turkish directors bear these transnational properties and the wedding theme analyzed here is one such property.
- Subjects
WEDDINGS in motion pictures; FILMMAKERS; TURKISH Germans; MARRIAGE in motion pictures; MOTION pictures &; transnationalism
- Publication
University Faculty of Communication Journal / Istanbul Üniversitesi Iletisim Fakültesi Hakemli Dergisi, 2013, Issue 44, p117
- ISSN
1302-633X
- Publication type
Article