UID:
almafu_9959241656602883
Format:
1 online resource (274 p.)
ISBN:
0-231-54314-X
Series Statement:
Film and Culture Series
Content:
It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted and hardened once Khomeini took power and as an eight-year war with Iraq dragged on, Iranian filmmakers confronted new restrictions. In the 1990s, however, the Reformist Movement, led by Mohammad Khatami and the film industry, developed an unlikely partnership that moved audiences away from revolutionary ideas and toward a discourse of reform. In Reform Cinema in Iran, Blake Atwood examines how new i
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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A Note on Transliteration --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Revolutionary Cinema and the Logic of Reform --
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1. When Love Entered Cinema: Mysticism and the Emerging Poetics of Reform --
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2. Screening Reform: Campaign Movies, Documentaries, and Urban Tehran --
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3. Video Democracies: Or, The Death of the Filmmaker --
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4. Who Killed the Tough Guy? Continuity and Rupture in the Filmfārsi Tradition --
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5. Film Archives and Online Videos: The Search for Reform in Post-Khatami Iran --
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Conclusion: Iran's Cinema Museum and Political Unrest --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Filmography --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-17816-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-17817-4
Language:
English
