Imaginaries Out of Place: Cinema, Transnationalism and Turkey

Gökçen Karanfil · Serkan Şavk

oct 2014 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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“As new geographies of mobility and hybridity make the concept of national identity highly problematic, new questions emerge that challenge and destabilize our conventional ways of thinking. Where do migrants ‘belong’? Are they members of a distant nation, or natives of the places in which they live? What kind of changes does the sense of ‘Turkishness’ undergo, and what does it mean to various Turkish communities living in various parts of the world? Most important of all, can emergent migrant and transnational cinema prevent nationalism’s abuse of locality and intimacy? In Imaginaries Out of Place: Cinema, Transnationalism and Turkey, the editors put together a series of bold and innovative essays that engage the question of transnational cinema in the context of Turkish national identity. This collection is essential reading for those who are interested in transnational and Turkish cinemas as well as those who research issues of migrant cultures, hybrid identities and new forms of belonging.”

– Mahmut Mutman, Professor of Cultural Studies, İstanbul Şehir University

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Gökçen Karanfil is a scholar of communication. His research interests range across nationalism, transnationalism, issues of representation and the sociology of media. He has published on these issues in a variety of academic journals. After receiving his PhD from the Australian National University in 2007, Dr Karanfil started teaching at İzmir University of Economics (IUE). He currently teaches courses on communication theories and sociology of media at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr Karanfil is currently the head of the Media and Communication Department at IUE.

Serkan Şavk teaches in the Faculty of Communication at İzmir University of Economics (IUE) and is a PhD candidate at Hacettepe University. His research interests involve a variety of subjects that intersect under the broader frame of history of communication. In addition to his research and conventional teaching practices, he also makes short documentaries and takes part as an instructor in international documentary workshops and media projects.