"The circulation of cinematographic images in Thessaloniki postottoman in Hellenization: collective interactions and individual constructions when the cinema arrives
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Mélisande Leventopoulos (Paris 8 University)
This intervention will question the social and cultural functions of cinema in the city of Thessaloniki which, Ottoman until 1912, was won over by Greece during the Balkan wars. By apprehending the circulation of cinematographic images in a context
progressive but unfinished Hellenization during the 1930s, It will be a question here of examining the modalities of seeing together and of questioning the hypothesis of a break in urban visual culture.
The double -edged sword: westerns and masculinity in Kinshasa bills
Didier Gondola (Johns Hopkins University)
This intervention is interested in the iconography conveyed by western films, especially in the positioning and prioritization of genres. As shown in the photograph of the Congolese Jean Depara, There are many contrasts between the "Bill" (Buffalo Bill is their eponymous hero), Incarnation of modern and equivocal masculinity, And young girls confined to the immutable diet of tradition. The producers of these images obviously had cinema and its male culture in mind by taking this photograph. It will be a question of discussing this fascination for the films of Cow Boy and the role they played in the construction of masculinity and the political evolution of the Congo.
About this seminar
This seminar is interested in the daily meeting with the images, the experiences they make and the appropriations of which they are the object. He questions these uses and receptions when the image enters the industrial era of the multiple, where they go from support to support, And where they circulate at the local level as a global.
Images cannot be reduced to representations: they are active, Transform the relationship with the world, to politics, in memory as in the family. They play a role in the creation and consolidation of membership communities.
It is thus a question of adopting an approach at the crossroads of cultural and social history, of art history, cultural anthropology, and studies on visual and material culture.
This seminar wants to go beyond the compartmentalization of cultural areas, To enter the circulation of images and their appropriations from a perspective of connected history. The objective is, in short, to draw a more polyphonic panorama of the connected visual universe, woven with individual and collective experiences of images, Since the 19th century.
Organized by the Invisu CNRS/INHA laboratory
Scientific committee
Manuel Charpy (Invisu Laboratory, CNRS/INHA), ECE ZERMAN (Invisu laboratory, CNRS/INHA; EHESS)