Visiting Lecturer in Film and Television, University of Westminster
Ozlem Koksal is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster (London, UK) in photography and film. Her research focuses on representations of the past, as well as notions of memory, loss and displacement in visual culture. She is the author of Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen (Bloomsbury, 2016). Her other publications include “Past Not-So-Perfect: Ararat and its Reception in Turkey” in Cinema Journal. 54.1 (2014): 45-64 and “From Wim Wender’s Lisbon to Fatih Akin’s Istanbul” in Cool Istanbul: Urban Enclosures and Resistances. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2015.
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Oct 04, 2016 08:36 am UTC| Entertainment
Under the Shadow, a horror set in 1988 Tehran and Iranian director Babak Anvaris first feature, took Sundance by storm. Out this week, it is not only one of the best horror films this year but also the newest feminist...
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