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Torn is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul

By (author) Canan Balan

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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 Istanbulâ€™s complex social fabric. Drawing on a wide range of primary sourcesâ€”including newspapers, trade records, consular reports, memoirs, novels, Islamic teachings, poems, shadow-play texts, and surviving silent filmsâ€”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 womenâ€™s movement, informed emerging notions of cinematic modernity and cross-cultural exchange in the region.

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