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This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany. Engaging with materialist philosophies of process, it offers analyses of films by Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, Aysun Bademsoy, Seyhan Derin, Harun Farocki, Yüksel Yavuz and Feo Aladag. Shifting the focus from the longstanding concerns of integration, identity and cultural conflict, Gozde Naiboglu shows that these films offer new expressions of lived experience under late capitalism through themes of work, social reproduction, unemployment and insecure work, exhaustion and precarity, thereby calling for a rethinking of the established ideas of class, community and identity.

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1.0 Introduction.- 2.0 Part I: The Berlin School.- 2.1 Thomas Arslan´s Berlin Trilogy.- 2.2 Christian Petzold´s Jerichow (2009).- 3.0 Part II: Documentary Film.- 3.1 Documentary and the Question of Representation.- 3.2 Materiality of Labour: Thomas Arslan´s Aus der Ferne/From Far Away (2006) and Seyhan Derin´s Ben Annemin Kiziyim/I Am My Mother´s Daughter (1996).- 3.3 Post-Representationalism as a political strategy: Aysun Bademsoy´s Am Rand der Städte/On the Outskirts (2006) and Ehre/Honour (2011).- 3.4 Machinic Semiotics: Harun Farocki´s Aufstellung/In-formation (2005).- 4.0 Part III: Social Realism.- 4.1 Viewing against the grain: Feo Aladag´s Die Fremde/When We Leave (2010).- 4.2 Queering the Ethics of Migration: Yüksel Yavuz´s Kleine Freiheit/A Little Bit of Freedom (2003).- 5.0 Conclusion.

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Gozde Naiboglu is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Her publications have appeared in journals including Studies in European Cinema, Screen and Film Criticism. Her research interests include non-representational approaches to film and screen media, contemporary European Cinema, gender and sexuality studies, feminist materialisms and affect theory.

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