Criss-Crossing in Global Space and Time:

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" Criss-Crossing in Global Space and Time: "
Mennel, Barbara

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	899896
Doc. No	:	LA28x3x9r0
Title & Author	:	Criss-Crossing in Global Space and Time: [Article]. Fatih Akın’s The Edge of Heaven (2007)\ Mennel, Barbara
Date	:	2009
Title of Periodical	:	UC Berkeley
Abstract	:	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.