Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture : : The Imaginary of the Balkans / / Ana Grgic.

The end of the nineteenth century saw the Balkans animated with cultural movements and socio-political turmoil. Alongside these developments, the proliferation of print media and the arrival of moving images was transforming urban life and played a significant role in the creation of national cultur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Eastern European screen cultures ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 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