Prof. David Gramling's new article on the film When We Leave (dir. Feo Aladag, 2010) has just been published in the anthology Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium (Ed. Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel, Berghahn Books). Gramling views recent Turkish German film—particularly film that deals with gender and Islam—as an endeavor in what he terms "mythical realism," in reference to Roland Barthes 1957 essay "Myth Today." He contends that Aladag's 2010 film When We Leave strategically appropriates the February 2005 murder of the young Berliner of Turkish descent, Hatun Sürücü, in order to paint a broader, indeed "mythic" picture of young Muslim women in contemporary postmulticultural Germany. A pdf copy of the chapter, entitled "The Oblivion of Influence: Mythical Realism in Feo Aladag's When We Leave (2010)," is available at Gramling's faculty website, livelongday.info.