Cinema Before the World
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Cinema Before the World
The Global Routes of the Lumiere Brothers
Allan, Michael
Fordham University Press
03/2026
240
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Inglês
9781531514037
15 a 20 dias
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p>Introduction:
Microhistory: Envisioning Ellipsis 1
A Flashback to Cinema's Elsewhere, 5
Microhistory: Excess as Method, 10
Illusions of Index, or the Ethnographic Mirage, 13
Conceptual Cartography, 17
A Preface to Prehistory: A Potential Future of Cinema, 20
1 World: The Labor of Representation 23
On Atlases and Adjacency, 26
An Archive of Potential Worlds, 31
Iteration and Empire, or the Labor of World Cinema, 35
Afterimages of Future Pasts: Glass and Bricks, 39
2 Location: Locating Looks in World Cinema 43
Mirror: A Local History of World Cinema, 47
Window: A World History of Local Cinema, 51
(The Postcolonial) Pivot: Unlearning Imperial Enchantment, 56
Portal: Beyond the World Picture, 60
3 Frames: De-Centering Orientalist Optics 62
A Frame Story, 65
Enframing the Unpredictable, 70
Beyond Icon and Index, or a Prayer for Mimesis, 72
An Expanded Field, 75
The Photorama, or a World without Frames, 80
De-Orientalizing Optics, 82
4 Sovereignty: Iterations of Cinematic Statecraft 85
Serial Sovereigns, 88
The Khedive's Two Bodies, 91
Sovereign Cuts, 95
Sovereign Afterlives, 99
The Sovereign Image?, 103
5 History: The Duration of Myth 105
Perfecting Place, 108
Picturing the Past, 110
The Image of
Duration, 114
Cinematic Futures, 119
The Cinematic Event, 122
6 Tracks: Tracking the World in/as Cinema 124
Placing Perceptual Paradigms, 129
Middle East Trains, 132
World in/as Motion, 138
Arriving at a Farewell, 140
7 Scale: The World as Close-Up 145
The Figure in the Carpet, 148
The Close-Up at a Formal Distance, 151
Looking and Masking, 158
Zoom Out: Facing the Globe, 162
Epilogue: Planet: Otherworldly Futures 167
Toward a Planetary Cinema, 169
Planetarity, 173
The Promise of
a Future Planet, 176
A World beyond Compare, 178
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 187
Bibliography 215
Index 231
Microhistory: Envisioning Ellipsis 1
A Flashback to Cinema's Elsewhere, 5
Microhistory: Excess as Method, 10
Illusions of Index, or the Ethnographic Mirage, 13
Conceptual Cartography, 17
A Preface to Prehistory: A Potential Future of Cinema, 20
1 World: The Labor of Representation 23
On Atlases and Adjacency, 26
An Archive of Potential Worlds, 31
Iteration and Empire, or the Labor of World Cinema, 35
Afterimages of Future Pasts: Glass and Bricks, 39
2 Location: Locating Looks in World Cinema 43
Mirror: A Local History of World Cinema, 47
Window: A World History of Local Cinema, 51
(The Postcolonial) Pivot: Unlearning Imperial Enchantment, 56
Portal: Beyond the World Picture, 60
3 Frames: De-Centering Orientalist Optics 62
A Frame Story, 65
Enframing the Unpredictable, 70
Beyond Icon and Index, or a Prayer for Mimesis, 72
An Expanded Field, 75
The Photorama, or a World without Frames, 80
De-Orientalizing Optics, 82
4 Sovereignty: Iterations of Cinematic Statecraft 85
Serial Sovereigns, 88
The Khedive's Two Bodies, 91
Sovereign Cuts, 95
Sovereign Afterlives, 99
The Sovereign Image?, 103
5 History: The Duration of Myth 105
Perfecting Place, 108
Picturing the Past, 110
The Image of
Duration, 114
Cinematic Futures, 119
The Cinematic Event, 122
6 Tracks: Tracking the World in/as Cinema 124
Placing Perceptual Paradigms, 129
Middle East Trains, 132
World in/as Motion, 138
Arriving at a Farewell, 140
7 Scale: The World as Close-Up 145
The Figure in the Carpet, 148
The Close-Up at a Formal Distance, 151
Looking and Masking, 158
Zoom Out: Facing the Globe, 162
Epilogue: Planet: Otherworldly Futures 167
Toward a Planetary Cinema, 169
Planetarity, 173
The Promise of
a Future Planet, 176
A World beyond Compare, 178
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 187
Bibliography 215
Index 231
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Alexandre Promio; Algeria; cinematograph; Egypt; film history; Lumière Brothers; Middle East; North Africa; Palestine; world cinema
p>Introduction:
Microhistory: Envisioning Ellipsis 1
A Flashback to Cinema's Elsewhere, 5
Microhistory: Excess as Method, 10
Illusions of Index, or the Ethnographic Mirage, 13
Conceptual Cartography, 17
A Preface to Prehistory: A Potential Future of Cinema, 20
1 World: The Labor of Representation 23
On Atlases and Adjacency, 26
An Archive of Potential Worlds, 31
Iteration and Empire, or the Labor of World Cinema, 35
Afterimages of Future Pasts: Glass and Bricks, 39
2 Location: Locating Looks in World Cinema 43
Mirror: A Local History of World Cinema, 47
Window: A World History of Local Cinema, 51
(The Postcolonial) Pivot: Unlearning Imperial Enchantment, 56
Portal: Beyond the World Picture, 60
3 Frames: De-Centering Orientalist Optics 62
A Frame Story, 65
Enframing the Unpredictable, 70
Beyond Icon and Index, or a Prayer for Mimesis, 72
An Expanded Field, 75
The Photorama, or a World without Frames, 80
De-Orientalizing Optics, 82
4 Sovereignty: Iterations of Cinematic Statecraft 85
Serial Sovereigns, 88
The Khedive's Two Bodies, 91
Sovereign Cuts, 95
Sovereign Afterlives, 99
The Sovereign Image?, 103
5 History: The Duration of Myth 105
Perfecting Place, 108
Picturing the Past, 110
The Image of
Duration, 114
Cinematic Futures, 119
The Cinematic Event, 122
6 Tracks: Tracking the World in/as Cinema 124
Placing Perceptual Paradigms, 129
Middle East Trains, 132
World in/as Motion, 138
Arriving at a Farewell, 140
7 Scale: The World as Close-Up 145
The Figure in the Carpet, 148
The Close-Up at a Formal Distance, 151
Looking and Masking, 158
Zoom Out: Facing the Globe, 162
Epilogue: Planet: Otherworldly Futures 167
Toward a Planetary Cinema, 169
Planetarity, 173
The Promise of
a Future Planet, 176
A World beyond Compare, 178
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 187
Bibliography 215
Index 231
Microhistory: Envisioning Ellipsis 1
A Flashback to Cinema's Elsewhere, 5
Microhistory: Excess as Method, 10
Illusions of Index, or the Ethnographic Mirage, 13
Conceptual Cartography, 17
A Preface to Prehistory: A Potential Future of Cinema, 20
1 World: The Labor of Representation 23
On Atlases and Adjacency, 26
An Archive of Potential Worlds, 31
Iteration and Empire, or the Labor of World Cinema, 35
Afterimages of Future Pasts: Glass and Bricks, 39
2 Location: Locating Looks in World Cinema 43
Mirror: A Local History of World Cinema, 47
Window: A World History of Local Cinema, 51
(The Postcolonial) Pivot: Unlearning Imperial Enchantment, 56
Portal: Beyond the World Picture, 60
3 Frames: De-Centering Orientalist Optics 62
A Frame Story, 65
Enframing the Unpredictable, 70
Beyond Icon and Index, or a Prayer for Mimesis, 72
An Expanded Field, 75
The Photorama, or a World without Frames, 80
De-Orientalizing Optics, 82
4 Sovereignty: Iterations of Cinematic Statecraft 85
Serial Sovereigns, 88
The Khedive's Two Bodies, 91
Sovereign Cuts, 95
Sovereign Afterlives, 99
The Sovereign Image?, 103
5 History: The Duration of Myth 105
Perfecting Place, 108
Picturing the Past, 110
The Image of
Duration, 114
Cinematic Futures, 119
The Cinematic Event, 122
6 Tracks: Tracking the World in/as Cinema 124
Placing Perceptual Paradigms, 129
Middle East Trains, 132
World in/as Motion, 138
Arriving at a Farewell, 140
7 Scale: The World as Close-Up 145
The Figure in the Carpet, 148
The Close-Up at a Formal Distance, 151
Looking and Masking, 158
Zoom Out: Facing the Globe, 162
Epilogue: Planet: Otherworldly Futures 167
Toward a Planetary Cinema, 169
Planetarity, 173
The Promise of
a Future Planet, 176
A World beyond Compare, 178
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 187
Bibliography 215
Index 231
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