{"product_id":"early-cinema-modernity-and-visual-culture-the-imaginary-of-the-balkans-9789463728300","title":"Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural perspective. It investigates how the unique geopolitical positioning of the Balkan space and its multiculturality influenced and shaped visual culture and cinema. Countering Eurocentric modernity paradigms and reframing hierarchical relations between centres and peripheries, this book adopts an alternative methodology for interstitial spaces. By deploying the notion of the haptic, it establishes new connections between moving image artefacts and print media, early film practitioners, the socio-political context and cultural responses to the new visual medium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressive, exhaustively researched work on Balkan early cinema grounded in regional and transnational layers of a culture history of visuality and geopolitics in modern times.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Zhen Zhang, New York University Tisch School Tisch School of the Arts \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is a different story of modernity with tensions between memory and forgetting, the archive and its absent films, the Balkan gaze and the Oriental gaze. Grgi. enhances and offers alternatives to the prevailing notions and concepts of early cinema scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e - Nezih Erdogan, Istinye University \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ccite\u003eEarly cinema, visual culture and modernity: The Imaginary of the Balkans\u003c\/cite\u003e is the first English-language synthetic volume in the still emerging field of early Balkan cinema history, an area marked by the extreme scarcity of multilingual sources. [...] Grgi.’s book is indeed an existential journey through the cinema history and memory of the Balkans. [...] On the road, crossing frontiers, bridging gaps and affronting the dramatic lacunas of fragmentary film and text collections while continuously translating the regional languages, the author takes the reader by the hand from an Archival center to another.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Mélisande Leventopoulos, \u003ccite\u003eStudies in Eastern European Cinema\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Ana Grgi.’s book is the first attempt to present early cinema in the Balkans in all its diversity and intricacy: not as the parallel existence of separate national protocinemas but as a unitary phenomenon. [...] The book consists of five chapters, each dealing with a major issue representative of early cinema itself and specific for its reception in the Balkans: the art of seeing, spectator’s experience, pioneers, external gaze, and identity. The sequence of these epistemological perspectives on the Balkan early cinema reproduces the path of its emancipation from visual tradition and external influences toward the assertion of modernity in the context of local culture.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Alexander Donev, \u003ccite\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Culture Journal\u003c\/cite\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Following Ana Grgi.’s trajectory for the history of early Balkan cinema requires accepting her research premise that borders of all types must be effaced in order to best locate places, artists, or films. [...] For the book’s readers, the unexplored land becomes the multi-ethnic and multicultural Balkans that the author investigates with the goal of advocating for a culturally convergent academic approach to Balkan early cinema.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Delia Enyedi, \u003ccite\u003eApparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eForeword: Travelling Down \/Travelling Through \u003cbr\u003ePreface: The Balkan Imaginary of Ruins \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Charting the Terrain: Early Cinema in the Balkans \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Visual Culture in the Balkans, Haptic Visuality, and Archival Moving Images \u003cbr\u003eMy Journey through Savage Europe \u003cbr\u003eHapticality of Archival Moving Images \u003cbr\u003eHapticality of Visual Culture in the Balkans \u003cbr\u003eThe Byzantine Cultural Legacy \u003cbr\u003eThe Ottoman Cultural Legacy \u003cbr\u003eArchitecture, Fresco Painting, Icons, Textiles, and Jewellery \u003cbr\u003e 'Image survivante' and the Legacy of Balkan Visual Culture \u003cbr\u003eThe Difference in Perception \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Historicizing the Balkan Spectator and the Embodied Cinema Experience \u003cbr\u003eAnticipating Cinema \u003cbr\u003eThe Arrival of Cinema: Haptical Encounters with Moving Images \u003cbr\u003eThe Spaces of Cinema and Coffee Consumption \u003cbr\u003eCinema and 'Intensive Life' \u003cbr\u003eCinema in the City \u003cbr\u003eLooking Back at Cinema \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mapping Constellations : Movement and Cross-cultural Exchange of Images, Practices, and People \u003cbr\u003eJourneys from the East: Cross-Cultural Travels of the Shadow-Puppet Theatre \u003cbr\u003eThe Cinematograph at the Theatre \u003cbr\u003eTravelling Cinema Exhibitors and Filmmakers \u003cbr\u003eThe Mysterious Hungarian and the Serbian-Bulgarian Connection \u003cbr\u003eThe Balkan Cinema Pioneers and the Lost Gaze \u003cbr\u003eCinema and the Global Imaginary \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Imagining the Balkans: The Cinematic Gaze from the Outside \u003cbr\u003eExoticism and the Balkans \u003cbr\u003eThe Orientalist Gaze in the Marubi Studio Photographs \u003cbr\u003e 'Oriental' Austria: Cinematic Representations of Bosnia and Herzegovina \u003cbr\u003eSensational Killings and Wild Insurgents at the Cinema \u003cbr\u003eThe Charles Urban Trading Company in the Balkans \u003cbr\u003eImperial Imagination, Archives, and Moving images \u003cbr\u003eThe Reverberations of Balkan Wars and Siege of Shkodra \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Made in the Balkans': Mirroring the Self \u003cbr\u003eThe Desire for 'Our' Views \u003cbr\u003eHigh-life and the Pleasure of the Screen \u003cbr\u003eScientific Spectacles \u003cbr\u003eViews of Ethnographic and Socio-Political Significance \u003cbr\u003ePictures of Home \u003cbr\u003eConstructing the Nation through Cinema \u003cbr\u003eHistorical Drama from Serbia \u003cbr\u003eHistorical Epic from Romania \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Future Perfect of Early Balkan Cinema \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography Appendix Index","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473244492119,"sku":"9789463728300","price":121.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463728300.jpg?v=1744905840","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-cinema-modernity-and-visual-culture-the-imaginary-of-the-balkans-9789463728300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}