Home, Alienhood and Transience in Stephen Frears’ “Dirty Pretty Things” and Fatih Akin’s “The Edge of Heaven”

Migration is the topic of my essay “Home, Alienation and Transience in Stephen Frears’ “Dirty Pretty Things” (2002) and Fatih Akin’s “The Edge of Heaven” (2007). In this essay I show how class, gender, and immigrant status inform the alien experiences of the films’ lead characters. While emphasizing...

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