This study investigates the use of music in the films of Fatih Akın and the music’s contribution ... more This study investigates the use of music in the films of Fatih Akın and the music’s contribution to the director’s narrative, specifically in relation to the issue of migration. Migration here refers to the large-scale immigration of Turks to Germany, which occurred between the 1960s and 1980s. In Akın’s films, music is used to represent the uncompromising and unique relationship between these two societies, Turkish and German, living together in the same country. Through an in-depth textual analysis of three of his films: Head-On (Akın, 2004), Crossing the Bridge (Akın, 2005) and The Edge of Heaven (Akın, 2007), this examination focuses on how music constructs a framework/background concerning immigrant culture in these films, as a contributing layer which parallels the main narrative and as a medium to explore the director’s position as a member of an immigrant family himself.
This study investigates the use of music in the films of Fatih Akın and the music’s contribution ... more This study investigates the use of music in the films of Fatih Akın and the music’s contribution to the director’s narrative, specifically in relation to the issue of migration. Migration here refers to the large-scale immigration of Turks to Germany, which occurred between the 1960s and 1980s. In Akın’s films, music is used to represent the uncompromising and unique relationship between these two societies, Turkish and German, living together in the same country. Through an in-depth textual analysis of three of his films: Head-On (Akın, 2004), Crossing the Bridge (Akın, 2005) and The Edge of Heaven (Akın, 2007), this examination focuses on how music constructs a framework/background concerning immigrant culture in these films, as a contributing layer which parallels the main narrative and as a medium to explore the director’s position as a member of an immigrant family himself.
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