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

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Travelling Down /Travelling Through -- Preface: The Balkan Imaginary of Ruins -- Introduction: Charting the Terrain: Early Cinema in the Balkans -- The Balkan Space of Enquiry -- The Invention of the Balkans -- Modernity, Cinema, and the Balkans -- Visual Culture, Early Cinema, and Hapticality -- Connecting a Disconnected Space: A Working Methodology -- Journey through the Archives -- The Field of Vision -- Limitations and Structure -- 1. Visual Culture in the Balkans, Haptic Visuality, and Archival Moving Images -- My Journey through Savage Europe -- Hapticality of Archival Moving Images -- Hapticality of Visual Culture in the Balkans -- The Byzantine Cultural Legacy -- The Ottoman Cultural Legacy -- Architecture, Fresco Painting, Icons, Textiles, and Jewellery -- 'Image survivante' and the Legacy of Balkan Visual Culture -- The Difference in Perception -- Works cited -- 2. Historicizing the Balkan Spectator and the Embodied Cinema Experience -- Anticipating Cinema -- The Arrival of Cinema: Haptical Encounters with Moving Images -- The Spaces of Cinema and Coffee Consumption -- Cinema and 'Intensive Life' -- Cinema in the City -- Looking Back at Cinema -- Works cited -- 3. Mapping Constellations: Movement and Cross-cultural Exchange of Images, Practices, and People -- Journeys from the East: Cross-Cultural Travels of the Shadow-Puppet Theatre -- The Cinematograph at the Theatre -- Travelling Cinema Exhibitors and Filmmakers -- The Mysterious Hungarian and the Serbian-Bulgarian Connection -- The Balkan Cinema Pioneers and the Lost Gaze -- Cinema and the Global Imaginary -- Works cited -- 4. Imagining the Balkans: The Cinematic Gaze from the Outside -- Exoticism and the Balkans -- The Orientalist Gaze in the Marubi Studio Photographs.

'Oriental' Austria: Cinematic Representations of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sensational Killings and Wild Insurgents at the Cinema -- The Charles Urban Trading Company in the Balkans -- Imperial Imagination, Archives, and Moving images -- The Reverberations of Balkan Wars and Siege of Shkodra -- Works cited -- 5. 'Made in the Balkans': Mirroring the Self -- The Desire for 'Our' Views -- High-life and the Pleasure of the Screen -- Scientific Spectacles -- Views of Ethnographic and Socio-Political Significance -- Pictures of Home -- Constructing the Nation through Cinema -- Historical Drama from Serbia -- Historical Epic from Romania -- Works cited -- Conclusion: The Future Perfect of Early Balkan Cinema -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Interviews -- Appendix -- Index.

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