Canan Balan Author

Canan Balan is a teaching fellow in Film at the University of Southampton and holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews. She has published numerous articles, book chapters and essays on early cinema, spectatorship, early film theory and film cultures in Istanbul and Turkey in English and Turkish. Her recent publications include: “Islam, Consciousness and Early Cinema: Said Nursî and the Cinema of God” (Film Philosophy, 2016) and “Sabahat Filmer” (Women Film Pioneers Project, 2023).