Torn Is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul - Library Binding
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Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Istanbul witnessed a cinematic revolution that carried profound implications for the way ideas of identity, nation, and gender were conceived. Re-examining film's potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures and ideas of social transformation...
Canan Balan is a teaching fellow in Film at the University of Southampton and holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and essays on early cinema, spectatorship, early film theory and film cultures in Istanbul and Turkey in English and Turkish. Her recent publications include: "Islam, Consciousness and Early Cinema: Sai...
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