Naficy A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9301-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten

Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naficy, Hamid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Organization of the Volumes xxi

A Word about Illustrations xxvii

List of Abbreviations xxix

1. International Haggling over Iranian Public Screens 1

2. The Statist Documentary Cinema and Its Alternatives 49

3. Commercial Cinema's Evolution: From Artisanal Mode to Hybrid Production 147

4. Family Melodramas and Comedies: The Stewpot Movie Genre 197

5. Males, Masculinity, and Power: The Tough-Guy Movie Genre and Its Evolution 261

6. A Dissident Cinema: New-Wave Films and the End of an Era 325

Notes 433

Bibliography 473

Index 497

Über Autor(innen)

Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University. He is the author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, and (in Persian) Film-e Mostanad, a two-volume history of nonfiction cinema around the world. Naficy helped to launch ongoing annual Iranian film festivals in Los Angeles and Houston.