<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper investigates <italic>Brothers and Sisters</italic> (<italic>Geschwister-Kardeşler,</italic> 1995), the first piece of Thomas Arslan’s Berlin-trilogy. While putting the film into the socio-historical context of the newly united German Republic, the study aims to highlight the characters’ struggle and constant shift between their Turkish and German identity. Through the narrative and textual analysis of <italic>Brothers and Sisters</italic>, the paper reveals the visual forms of social exclusion and concludes that in Arslan’s film, the characters bear with no social identity but various stages of identification, which keep them in an in-between, insecure position.</p></abstract>

The paper investigates Brothers and Sisters (Geschwister-Kardeşler, 1995), the first piece of Thomas Arslan’s Berlin-trilogy. While putting the film into the socio-historical context of the newly united German Republic, the study aims to highlight the characters’ struggle and constant shift between their Turkish and German identity. Through the narrative and textual analysis of Brothers and Sisters, the paper reveals the visual forms of social exclusion and concludes that in Arslan’s film, the characters bear with no social identity but various stages of identification, which keep them in an in-between, insecure position.

The Flux of Transmigrant Identities in Thomas Arslan’s <italic>Brothers and Sisters</italic>

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

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The Flux of Transmigrant Identities in Thomas Arslan’s 

The paper investigates Brothers and Sisters (Geschwister-Kardeşler, 1995), the first piece of Thomas Arslan’s Berlin-trilogy. While putting the film into the...

The Flux of Transmigrant Identities in Thomas Arslan’s Brothers and Sisters

Published Online: Jan 19, 2018

Page range: 51 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2017-0003

Keywords
Turkish-German cinema, Thomas Arslan, transmigrant identity, multicultural society, accented cinema

© 2017 Anna Bátori, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Flux of Transmigrant Identities in Thomas Arslan’s Brothers and Sisters

Published Online: Jan 19, 2018

Page range: 51 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2017-0003

KeywordsTurkish-German cinema, Thomas Arslan, transmigrant identity, multicultural society, accented cinema

© 2017 Anna Bátori, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Turkish-German cinema, Thomas Arslan, transmigrant identity, multicultural society, accented cinema