Configuring Affect: Complex World Making in Fatih Akin's "Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)"

Through a close reading of Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven, 2007), this article undertakes a theoretical intervention into the cinematic study of affect. The proposed model of narrative as a world-making assemblage of affects, associations, images, words, and sounds integ...

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Published in:Cinema journal 2014-09, Vol.54 (1), p.65-87
Main Author: Breger, Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Akin, Fatih
Analysis
Cosmopolitanism
Empathy
Film criticism
Film theory
Filmmakers
Mothers
Movies
Narrative modes
Narratives
Narratology
Paradigms (Social sciences)
Storytelling
Works
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Summary:Through a close reading of Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven, 2007), this article undertakes a theoretical intervention into the cinematic study of affect. The proposed model of narrative as a world-making assemblage of affects, associations, images, words, and sounds integrates signification-critical, affirmationoriented approaches to affect with a continued critique of ideology. In developing how the film's complex narrative intertwines distanciation and affect, I probe how we can turn to "good feelings" without disregarding the legacies of inequality that block them in the contemporary world.
ISSN:0009-7101
1527-2087
1527-2087
DOI:10.1353/cj.2014.0056