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Dear SCREEN-L Subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication from Indiana University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe
Berna Gueneli


http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/fatih-akins-cinema-and-the-new-sound-of-europe

“Gueneli provides a much-needed full-length English language study of the transnational auteur Fatih Akın.This book offers needed breadth and depth of insight into Akın’s acclaimed powerful body of work. From his gangster films to arthouse works, from his road movies to costume dramas, Gueneli expolers the heterogenous German Turkish European intertextual complexities of his must-see films. And she does so with erudition and clarity.” - Randall Halle, Director of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, author of The Europeanization of Cinema
In Fatih Akın’s Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, Berna Gueneli explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akın. The first minority director in Germany to receive numerous national and international awards, Akın makes films that are informed by Europe’s past, provide cinematic imaginations about its present and future, and engage with public discourses on minorities and migration in Europe through his treatment and representation of a diverse, multiethnic, and multilingual European citizenry.
Through detailed analyses of some of Akın’s key works—In July, Head-On, and The Edge of Heaven, among others—Gueneli identifies Akın’s unique stylistic use of multivalent sonic and visual components and multinational characters. She argues that the soundscapes of Akın’s films—including music and multiple languages, dialects, and accents—create an “aesthetic of heterogeneity” that envisions an expanded and integrated Europe and highlights the political nature of Akın’s decisions regarding casting, settings, and audio. At a time when belonging and identity in Europe is complicated by questions of race, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship, Gueneli demonstrates how Akın’s aesthetics intersect with politics to reshape notions of Europe, European cinema, and cinematic history.
Berna Gueneli is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Georgia at Athens.
With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers



Indiana University Press | New Directions in National Cinemas | January 2019 | 256pp | 9780253024459 | PB | £28.99*
*Price subject to change.


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