عنوان

Criss-Crossing in Global Space and Time:

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LA28x3x9r0

Title Proper

Criss-Crossing in Global Space and Time:

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mennel, Barbara

Title Proper by Another Author

Fatih Akın's The Edge of Heaven (2007)

Text of Note

In this essay, I argue that The Edge of Heaven constitutes a sophisticated and complex, and in part seemingly paradoxical, response to globalization. I suggest that the film captures the effects of globalization's most pronounced characteristics. Transnational mobility, digital media, and the increased speed of transportation and information technology have changed narrative conventions, perception of time and space, and the structure of intimacy and familial relations. The film portrays the interconnected local belonging and global mobility characteristic of transnational culture and captures what geographer David Harvey has labeled the "time-space compression" of globalization, the result of increased speed of transportation and communication technologies.

Date of Publication

2009

Title

UC Berkeley

Electronic name

[Article]

276246

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