Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture The Imaginary of the Balkans |
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| Author:
| Grgic, Ana |
| Series title: | Eastern European Screen Cultures Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-94-6372-830-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2021 |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $155.00 |
Book Description:
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Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkansis 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...
More DescriptionBased on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkansis 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.