A social history of Iranian cinema. Volume 1, the artisanal era, 1897-1941 / Hamid Naficy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naficy, Hamid.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Iran--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Other Title:

Artisanal era, 1897-1941

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena. The first volume focuses on silent era cinema and the transition to sound.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Organization of the Volumes; A Word about Illustrations; Preface: How It All Began; Introduction: National Cinema, Modernity, and Iranian National Identity; 1. Artisanal Silent Cinema in the Qajar Period; 2. Ideological and Spectatorial Formations; 3. State Formation and Nonfiction Cinema: Syncretic Westernization during the First Pahlavi Period; 4. A Transitional Cinema: The Feature Film Industry and Sound Cinema; 5. Modernity's Ambivalent Subjectivity: Dandies and the Dandy Movie Genre; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613265845

9781283265843

1283265842

9780822393009

082239300X

OCLC:

1202625400