Socio Historica: Journal of Islamic Social History
Eksotisme-Teimur Dalam Visualisasi Film Alexandre Promio Menggunakan Cinematographe di Mesir1897
Abstract
This study discusses the representation of Eastern-Islamic exoticism in Egypt’s earliest films recorded by Alexandre Promio, an operator for the Société Antoine Lumière et ses Fils (Société Lumière) owned by the Lumière Brothers, using the late 19th-century European invention, the Cinématographe Lumière. The primary objective of this research is to examine the cultural transformation of Western-European (French) visual representation and how Alexandre Promio represented Eastern-Islamic (Egyptian) exoticism through the first moving pictures (films) about Egypt, to establish or reinforce ideological stereotypes held by Western Europeans. The primary sources used in this study include 21 of the 35 Egypt’s earliest films made by Alexandre Promio, along with contemporary photographs, lithographs, paintings, books, magazines, and newspapers. This research employs a historical research method with a constructionist approach. The findings reveal that the earliest films about Egypt recorded by Alexandre Promio exhibit the exoticism of Eastern-Islamic (Egyptian) culture and his efforts to construct new stereotypes and reinforce Western-European (French) ideological perceptions of Eastern-Islamic (Egyptian) exoticism.
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DOI: 10.15408/sh.v4i1.41309
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