Universität zu Köln

Njanjo, Burrhus ORCID: 0009-0002-0376-0913 (2026). Migration, Imagination und Film Postmigrantisches Kino bei Abdellatif Kechiche. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

The present study is concerned with the contemporary interrelationship between cinema and politics in the context of post-migration Europe. In particular, the study analyses the cinematographic productions and forms of enunciation of French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche. It begins, however, with a postcolonial approach to the dynamics of the cinematographic field in Western Europe (Germany, Great Britain), and in France in particular, in which Kechiche evolves. This thesis examines the artist's migratory past through the lens of the concept of race, drawing on the poststructuralist ideas of Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari. It analyses the conditions and discursive and artistic modes through which the artist represents, thinks about and imagines French society, and how this shapes his identity and creative process in a kind of unceasing frenetic movement. To elucidate further, this project examines the role played by race in the production of discursive practices by filmmaker Kechiche. It considers how these practices shape representations of French society and film culture, and the ways they construct a (post-)migrant subjectivity. One of the consequences of these discourses is the constant rethinking and transformation of the French nation in its imaginaries, as well as of the French cinematographic field in its visions, positions, genres, and the roles occupied by actors with a post-migratory trajectory and aesthetic such as Kechiche. By contextualizing the concepts of field, nation and minor literature as elucidated by Pierre Bourdieu, Deleuze/Guattari and Franz Kafka, this phenomenon is examined and articulated as that of minor minoritarian cinema.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Translated abstract:	Abstract Language The present study is concerned with the contemporary interrelationship between cinema and politics in the context of post-migration Europe. In particular, the study analyses the cinematographic productions and forms of enunciation of French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche. It begins, however, with a postcolonial approach to the dynamics of the cinematographic field in Western Europe (Germany, Great Britain), and in France in particular, in which Kechiche evolves. This thesis examines the artist's migratory past through the lens of the concept of race, drawing on the poststructuralist ideas of Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari. It analyses the conditions and discursive and artistic modes through which the artist represents, thinks about and imagines French society, and how this shapes his identity and creative process in a kind of unceasing frenetic movement. To elucidate further, this project examines the role played by race in the production of discursive practices by filmmaker Kechiche. It considers how these practices shape representations of French society and film culture, and the ways they construct a (post-)migrant subjectivity. One of the consequences of these discourses is the constant rethinking and transformation of the French nation in its imaginaries, as well as of the French cinematographic field in its visions, positions, genres, and the roles occupied by actors with a post-migratory trajectory and aesthetic such as Kechiche. By contextualizing the concepts of field, nation and minor literature as elucidated by Pierre Bourdieu, Deleuze/Guattari and Franz Kafka, this phenomenon is examined and articulated as that of minor minoritarian cinema. English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Njanjo, Burrhus bbnjanjo@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0376-0913 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-812102
Identification Number:	10.14361/9783839477649
Series Name:	Post_koloniale Medienwissenschaft
Volume:	11
Date:	2026
Publisher:	transcrpit
Place of Publication:	Bielefeld
ISSN:	2703-1209
ISBN:	978-3-8394-7764-9
Language:	German
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, Digital Humanities > Institut für Medienkultur und Theater (IMT)
Subjects:	Philosophy Social sciences Romance languages French Public performances
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language minor minoritarian cinema UNSPECIFIED Filmisches Feld UNSPECIFIED Kechiche UNSPECIFIED
Date of oral exam:	4 December 2024
Referee:	Name Academic Title Göttel, Dennis Prof. Dr. Simo, David Prof. Dr. König, Christiane PD Dr.
['eprint_fieldname_oa_funders' not defined]:	Publikationsfonds UzK
Funders:	Professur für Filmwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin, Druckkostenzuschuss der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/81210