A New Book Edited by Prof. Dr. Deniz Bayrakdar

The book titled Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media, edited by Prof. Dr. Deniz Bayrakdar, one of the faculty members of our Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, together with Robert Burgoyne, was published by Amsterdam University Press.

The 21st century has witnessed an accelerating wave of migration driven by global warming, civil wars, economic and political reasons, and it is now happening again on the fringes of continental Europe, which was supposed to have established peace after World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media consists of eleven chapters discussing the reflections of this human tragedy called forced migration in artworks. Contributors include Dudley Andrew, Nagehan Uskan, Robert Burgoyne, Selmin Kara, Dora Apel, Erik Marshall, Deniz Göktürk, Eileen Rositzka, Deniz Bayrakdar, Nevena Dakovic and Iva Lekovic.

Covering the works of Ai Weiwei and Richard Mosse, refugees’ workshops on the island of Lesbos, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installations, refugee and migrant narratives and designs in the Balkans, Turkish-German and Turkish films, the study was expanded and prepared as a compilation book project based on the XXth New Directions in Turkish Film Studies “Cinema and Migration” conference held at Kadir Has University in 2019.

Kitabın arka kapağında yer alan yazılar kitabın özüne dair yorumları içeriyor. Isolina Ballesteros çalışmayı “21.yüzyılda kitlesel göç üzerine görsel kültür araştırmaları için gözardı edilemeyecek bir kaynak” olarak nitelerken Daniela Berghahn “Panoramik bir çerçeve içinde zengin ve ufuk açıcı bir antoloji…” değerlendirmesinde bulunuyor.

Kitabın detaylarını şu linkten inceleyebilirsiniz: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724166/refugees-and-migrants-in-contemporary-film-art-and-media#toc