Index

Table of contents for the wiki. Read top-down to follow the dissertation; jump by topic via the section listings below.

Source-level

• Cinema of Marbles — Mademli's PhD dissertation, top-level summary.

Chapters

• Chapter 1 — Crisis and Nationalism — the Manakia collection and "Views of the Ottoman Empire"; builds the boundary archive concept.
• Chapter 2 — Center-Periphery — the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum, its 1997 exhibit and 2022 redesign; introduces the viewser.
• Chapter 3 — Branding the Greek Crisis — Weird Wave / New Greek Cinema as crisis archive; Amnesia Diaries, Spectres, Vlihi.
• Chapter 4 — Crisis and Ecosystems — The Prism, The Caravan, and Archipelago Network; develops archipelagic thinking.

Concepts

• Marmarization — the titular neologism: film as monument.
• Boundary archive — partiality and interpretive flexibility as archival method.
• Double structure — held-open binary pairs as analytical figure.
• Center / periphery — shifting axis across all four chapters.
• Viewser — visitor as user, user as curator.
• Weird Wave — the brand-name taxonomy of post-2010 Greek arthouse cinema.
• Hauntology and spectrality — Derrida, Fisher, the cinematic ghost.
• Archipelagic thinking — Glissant's model relocated to the Aegean.
• Crisis (the keyword) — κρίσις, judgment / separation as archival operation.
• Glossary — one-liners for the dense theoretical vocabulary.

Case studies

• Manakia Brothers — early Balkan filmmakers contested across nation-states.
• Views of the Ottoman Empire — EYE Filmmuseum / Cineteca di Bologna curatorial project.
• Thessaloniki Cinema Museum — 1997 exhibition and 2022 redesign proposal.
• Spectres Are Haunting Europe — Kourkouta and Yannari's Idomeni documentary (2016).
• Vlihi — Lanthimos's 35mm silent film performed once in May 2022.
• The Prism GR 2011 — Paschalidou and Katsaounis's interactive crisis documentary.
• The Caravan Project — Vogiatzis and Malamou's rhizomatic moving archive.
• Archipelago Network — Cyclades-focused archival project, founded 2019.

Operational

• Log — append-only record of ingest and edit operations.