1st Edition

Audiovisual Healing and Reparation Recuperative Affect of Mediation

Edited By Özgür Çiçek, Özlem Savaş Copyright 2025
210 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Audiovisual Healing and Reparation gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices that explore how audiovisual media can serve as a catalyst for healing, reparation, resilience, care and hope. The contributors critically engage with the audiovisual mediations of harsh histories and experiences of violence, discrimination, racism, sexism, colonialism, displacement, illness and death,... Read more

Seeking Recuperation: An Introduction, Özgür Çiçek and Özlem Savaş 

1.     Rupture and Reparation in Audiovisual Narratives of Displacement, Özlem Savaş 

2.     Recuperating the Archival Void: Documentary Film and the Creation of a Health, Özgür Çiçek 

3.     The Space of Thirdness: Intermediating performative treatments in artists’ moving image, Maria Walsh 

4.     Ethnic Healing: Fighting the Ethic of Unacknowledgeability Through the Documentary Format — the Srbenka (2018) Case, Yago Paris

 5.     Affectionate stories, memory fragments: a documentary on the postmemory of Italian immigration in Brazil, Kátia Hallak Lombardi 

6.     Black Setúbal: The creative process behind an audiowalk app on The Black presence in the town of SetúbalNuno Cuelho, Rafaela Rodrigues, Jorge Cardoso, Ana Alcântara, Cristina Roldão 

7.     A Hybrid Media System of Care: Cancer Diaries and Social Media, Birte de Gruisbourne and Christian Schulz 

8.     Digital Ecosystems for and by Scholactivists: Well-Being without Borders, Asli Telli 

9.     The Mirror and the Telephone: Diagnosing and Healing in the films of Robert Siodmak, Polina Rybina 

10.  Mourning in Horror: Grief in Twenty-First-Century Horror Films, Tugce Kutlu 

11.  An Artist Roundtable on Healing Through Audio-Visuality: Relationality, Embodiment, and New Collective Futures, Şirin Fulya Erensoy 

Index

Biography

Özgür Çiçek is a film scholar, researcher, and lecturer in the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie at the intersection of national and transnational cinemas, minor cinemas, audiovisual heritage and media memory studies, documentary film and archive studies, film philosophy and aesthetics. Her forthcoming monograph is provisionally titled Kurdish Cinema in Turkey: Imprisonment, Memory, and the Archive.

Özlem Savaş is a media studies scholar, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology at European University Viadrina, Germany. Her interdisciplinary work bridges media studies, migration studies and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on affect and emotions, aesthetic and cultural production, and everyday life. Her forthcoming monograph, The Sigh of Displacement: Affective Practices of Mediating Migration and Belonging, is under contract with Routledge.