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Chapter 8
Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
Refers to how traditional films present men as active, whose gaze and story the camera follows and presents women as the passive secondary characters who are there to aid the male hero in his journey.
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Engendering Orientalism: Fatih Akin's Head-On and The Edge of Heaven
Filiz Cicek (Indiana University Purdue University Columbus, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch008
Abstract
This study explores the elements of Orientalism in German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's films Head-On (2004) and The Edge of Heaven (2007). Utilizing Homi Bhabha's theory of “third spaces,” which immigrants often inhabit, and Edward Said's lens of the postcolonial gaze, I analyze the degree to which the bodies of immigrants willingly embody the mysterious “oriental,” and how and when it is projected upon male and female characters in these two films. Akin's characters dwell between a perceived and imaginary Occident and Orient, while living and traveling in the soil of both Germany and Turkey.
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