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Volume 6.2 (2017) | ISSN 2158-8724 (online) | DOI 10.5195/cinej.2017.198 | http://cinej.pitt.edu
Abstract
Volume 6.2 (2017) includes the articles by Hasan Gürkan, Bahar Muratoğlu Pehlivan & Gül Esra Atalay, Andrew Ali Ibbi, Iqbal Shailo, Alon Lazar & Tal Litvak Hirsch, Elloit Cardozo, Floribert Patrick C. Endong, Olugbenga Elegbe, Volkan Yücel & Ziya Toprak, Aslı Daldal, Funda Mardar Kara & Şakir Eşitti.
Keywords: Turkish-Austrian Migrant Cinema, Jim Jarmusch and Ecosocialism, Stereotyping, Bollywood, Holocaust Cinema, Panopticon, Nollywood, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
I would like to begin this editorial by announcing that CINEJ Cinema Journal has been selected for coverage in the Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) Emerging Sources Citation Index, and since the beginning of 2017 it has been indexed and abstracted in ESCI. I am thrilled by the good news and I hope that this progress will enhance the academic scope and depth of our journal.
The volume 6.2 is comprised of eleven articles and one book review. Based on the insights of cultural studies, Gürkan's article Transnational Life: Where'd I be happy? A Research about the Films of Immigrant Directors from Turkey Living in Austria questions the notion of "identity" for immigrant characters. He analyzes the films concerned and claims that they reflect the familiar relations of Turkish immigrants faced with the cross-cultural problems and creolization. The article supports the claims that postmodern identity is multiple, always contradictive and hybrid as a result of social mobility.
Aestheticizing the Downfall of Industrial Capitalism: Jim Jarmusch's Tale of Intellectual Vampires in Zombies' World by Muratoğlu Pehlivan and Atalay looks into the fictional "vampire world" created by the famous independent director of American...