Beschreibung:
"Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, [this four-volume set] explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran."--P. [4] of cover.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiiiOrganization of the Volumes xxiA Word about Illustrations xxviiPreface. How It All Began xxixIntroduction. National Cinema, Modernity, and Iranian National Identity 11. Artisanal Silent Cinema in the Qajar Period 272. Ideological and Spectatorial Formations 713. State Formation and Nonfiction Cinema: Syncretic Westernization during the First Pahlavi Period 1414. A Transitional Cinema: The Feature Film Industry and Sound Cinema 1975. Modernity's Ambivalent Subjectivity: Dandies and the Dandy Movie Genre 277Notes 309Bibliography 343Index 371