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""Early 'travelogue' films are often perceived as static: at worst Orientalist clichés, at best indexical witnesses. In contrast, Allan conceives of the Lumières' films from cities like Cairo and Jerusalem as in motion, in relation, inexhaustible: worthy of being the origin moments of a decolonized world cinema.""---Laura Marks, Simon Fraser University ""In this boldly original work Michael Allan scrutinizes films of the Middle East shot by Alexandre Promio for the Lumiére company in 1897. Analyzed formally and in terms of their historical and cultural significance, these films, lasting less than a minute, reveal the promise of a world cinema yet to be fulfilled.""---Tom Gunning, University of Chicago

""In this boldly original work Michael Allan scrutinizes films of the Middle East shot by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company in 1897. Analyzed formally and in terms of their historical and cultural significance, these films, lasting less than a minute, reveal the promise of a world cinema yet to be fulfilled.""---Tom Gunning, University of Chicago ""Early 'travelogue' films are often perceived as static: at worst Orientalist clichés, at best indexical witnesses. In contrast, Allan conceives of the Lumières' films from cities like Cairo and Jerusalem as in motion, in relation, inexhaustible: worthy of being the origin moments of a decolonized world cinema.""---Laura Marks, Simon Fraser University

""In this boldly original work Michael Allan scrutinizes films of the Middle East shot by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière company in 1897. Analyzed formally and in terms of their historical and cultural significance, these films, lasting less than a minute, reveal the promise of a world cinema yet to be fulfilled."" - Tom Gunning, University of Chicago ""Early ‘travelogue’ films are often perceived as static: at worst Orientalist clichés, at best indexical witnesses. In contrast, Allan conceives of the Lumières’ films from cities like Cairo and Jerusalem as in motion, in relation, inexhaustible: worthy of being the origin moments of a decolonized world cinema."" - Laura Marks, Simon Fraser University

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Michael Allan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton, 2016, winner, MLA First Book Prize) and serves as editor of the journal Comparative Literature.

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