Introduction
PART I: CONFIGURATIONS OF STEREOTYPES AND IDENTITIES: NEW METHODOLOGIES
Chapter 1. My Big Fat Turkish Wedding: From Culture Clash to Romcom
Daniela Berghahn
Chapter 2. The Oblivion of Influence: Transmigration, Tropology, and Myth-Makingin Feo Aladag's When We Leave
David Gramling
Chapter 3. The Minor Cinema of Thomas Arslan: A Prolegomenon
Marco 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 Akin's We Forgot to Go Back
Angelica Fenner
Chapter 5. Gendered Kicks: Buket Alakus's and Aysun Bademsoy's Soccer Films
Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey
Chapter 6. Location and Mobility in Kutlug Ataman's Site-specific Video Installation Kuba
Nilgun Bayraktar
Chapter 7. Turkish for Beginners: Teaching Cosmopolitanism to Germans
Brent Peterson
Chapter 8. Only the Wounded Honor Fights: Zuli Aladag's Rageand the Drama of the Turkish German Perpetrator
Brad 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 Cinema
Randall Halle
Chapter 10. Mehmet Kurtulus and Birol UEnel: Sexualized Masculinities, Normalized Ethnicities
Berna Gueneli
Chapter 11. The Perception and Marketing of Fatih Akin in the German Press
Karolin Machtans
Chapter 12. Hyphenated Identities: The Reception of Turkish German Cinema in the Turkish Daily Press
Ayca Tunc Cox
PART IV: THE CINEMA OF FATIH AKIN: AUTHORSHIP, IDENTITY, AND BEYOND
Chapter 13. Cosmopolitan Filmmaking: Fatih Akin's In July and Head-On
Mine Eren
Chapter 14. Remixing Hamburg: Transnationalism in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen
Roger Hillman and Vivien Silvey
Chapter 15. World Cinema Goes Digital: Looking at Europe from the Other Shore
Deniz Goekturk
Notes on Contributors
Works Cited
Index of Names
Index of Films