Biography
Magdalena Yuksel completed a PhD in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto with the doctoral dissertation, "Middle Eastern Refugees in Europe: The Polarization of Affect through Digital Remediations of Migration as Crisis". She holds a double BA from Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland and an MA from Bilkent University, Turkey in Media and Visual Studies. Magdalena’s MA thesis was dedicated to the Iraq War, where she analyzed the Iraq War films as a new subgenre of a war film. She is the co-author of “Generation Kill and the New Screen Combat,” published in Anna Froula and Stacy Takacs’s American Militarism on the Small Screen. She has worked on other projects involving postcolonial studies, trauma and affect theory, multiculturalism in Europe in films and television, and the effects of globalization on third world countries as shown in films.
Course
- CIN321H1F - The War Film