Early Film Cultures in İstanbul
Torn Is the Curtain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13144265 |
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| Authors | Aslı Kotaman (0000-0003-1184-5060, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-227 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Lens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2832-5796 • E-ISSN: 2832-580X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.70041 |
| OpenAlex | W7140228865 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This perspective engages with Torn Is the Curtain: Early Film Cultures in Istanbul as a work that enables a rethinking of publicity, visibility, and regimes of witnessing through early cinema cultures. Rather than approaching the book as a case limited to Istanbul or Turkey, it situates Balan's study in dialogue with a broader historical–sociological literature that conceptualizes early cinema through visual publicity, spectatorship, and social regulation. Developed around the metaphor of the curtain, Balan's archival and historical analysis makes visible how the public sphere was constituted from the late Ottoman period to the early Republic, how access to visual experience was organized, and how spectatorship was structured in gendered ways
Film studies · Metaphor · Movie theater · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Visual culture · Cinema and Media Studies · Historical and Political Studies · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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