Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture

The Imaginary of the Balkans
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17840-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Eastern European Screen Cultures

Based 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grgic, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Foreword: Travelling Down /Travelling Through, Preface: The Balkan Imaginary of Ruins, Introduction: Charting the Terrain: Early Cinema in the Balkans, 1. Visual Culture in the Balkans, Haptic Visuality, and Archival Moving Images, 2. Historicizing the Balkan Spectator and the Embodied Cinema Experience, 3. Mapping Constellations: Movement and Cross-cultural Exchange of Images, Practices, and People, 4. Imagining the Balkans: The Cinematic Gaze from the Outside, 5. 'Made in the Balkans': Mirroring the Self, Conclusion: The Future Perfect of Early Balkan Cinema, Bibliography, Appendix, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Grgic (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Associate Professor at Babes-Bolyai University. Her research on Balkan cinemas, archives, and cultural memory has appeared in Early Popular Visual Culture, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Film Quarterly, and KinoKultura. She is co-editor of Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits (2020), and is Associate Editor of Studies in World Cinema.