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Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic

By Blake , ATWOOD

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN
9780231543149, 9780231178167, 9780231178174, 023154314X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5261203 bytes)
Series
Film and Culture Series
Pages
20 b&w illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Motion picture industry--Political aspects;Motion

Description

Blake Atwood is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor, with Peter Decherney, of Iranian Cinema in a Global Context: Policy, Politics, and Form (2014). Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Revolutionary Cinema and the Logic of Reform -- 1. When Love Entered Cinema: Mysticism and the Emerging Poetics of Reform -- 2. Screening Reform: Campaign Movies, Documentaries, and Urban Tehran -- 3. Video Democracies: Or, The Death of the Filmmaker -- 4. Who Killed the Tough Guy? Continuity and Rupture in the Filmfārsi Tradition -- 5. Film Archives and Online Videos: The Search for Reform in Post-Khatami Iran -- Conclusion: Iran's Cinema Museum and Political Unrest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

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