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
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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.