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Journal Article
The Transnational Archive as a Site of Disruption, Discrepancy, and Decomposition: The Complexities of Ottoman Film Heritage
2021
Overview
This article argues for a concept of the transnational archive, which offers the
potential to activate movingimage artifacts across a wider
historical and geographical scope than the national film historiographies.
Following Stoler’s description of archives as condensed sites of epistemological
and political anxiety, we suggest approaching archives as registers of struggle,
confusion, discrepancy, and rupture. As such, the transnational archive holds a
plethora of artifacts that may challenge the intact paradigms of former
colonialist and imperialist states. We tackle this potential via Ottoman film
heritage, focusing on recently discovered footage of Adana, filmed by missionary
filmmakers Mulsant and Chevalier in 1909. We take these cinematic images of
ruins and rubble as signs of ruination, extending Stoler’s concept to the
destruction of cultural heritage for epistemic erasure, as an ongoing phenomenon
even after the dissolution of the imperialist or colonialist state.
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University of Minnesota Press
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