Offering a feminist history of cinema at the edges of empire and the nation-state, this book explores how gender, class, and ethno-religious divisions were projected, performed, and entangled. It Focuses on the former Ottoman capital from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s and investigates how cinema both reflected and shaped Istanbul's complex social fabric. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources—including newspapers, trade records, consular reports, memoirs, novels, Islamic teachings, poems, shadow-play texts, and surviving silent films—it situates early cinematic experiences within the intersecting contexts of societal change, gender politics, and competing worldviews. The analysis reveals how religious and cultural practices, particularly the Alevi-Bektashi faith and the women's movement, informed emerging notions of cinematic modernity and cross-cultural exchange in the region.
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Middle Eastern HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. To Draw the Curtain
- 1. The Ottoman Polity, Urban Spectatorship and the Pre-Cinematic Gaze
- 2. A New Show in the City, 1896–1914
- 3. The Great War, Occupation and Dressing the Spectators as Women, 1914–1923
- 4. Ambivalence and the New Nation State
- Conclusion. Tears (and Stitches) in the Curtain
- Bibliography
- Index
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