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Performing Iran : culture, performance, theatre / editor, Babak Rahimi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Iran--History.
- Performing arts.
- Theater--Iran--History.
- Theater.
- Folklore--Performance--Iran.
- Folklore.
- Persian drama--History and criticism.
- Persian drama.
- Popular culture--Iran.
- Popular culture.
- Performance art--Iran.
- Performance art.
- Folklore--Performance.
- History.
- Iran.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes on Transliteration
- PART I. Performing Tradition: Past Traces in the Present
- Chapter 1. Minstrels: The Wise Teachers of Ancient Iran
- Soodabeh Malekzadeh Erdaji
- Chapter 2. The Scarlet Stone: Wisdom and Infatuation in the Story of Rostam and Sohrab in Today's Iran
- Shahroukh Yadegari (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Chapter 3. The Question of Audience in Abbas Kiarostami's 'A look to Taziyeh'
- Babak Rahimi (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Part II. Performing (Post-Revolutionary) Iran: Space, Stage and Theater
- Chapter 4. The Shiraz Arts Festival and the Slide Towards Revolution
- Joshua Charney
- Chapter 5. Iran is the Stage and Youth its Major Players: Seven-Year Educational Excursion into Iran's Socio-Theatre
- Mahmood Karimi-Hakak (Siena College, USA)
- Chapter 6. Acting Out: Hamed Taheri and the Transformative Power of Iranian Underground Theatre
- Roxanne Varzi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
- Chapter 7. Disrupting Bodies, Negotiating Spaces: Performance Art in Tehran
- Staci Scheiwiller (California State University, Stanislaus, USA)
- Chapter 8. Performing a Dual Critique: Cinema's Role in Human Rights Discourse in Contemporary Iran
- Amy Motlagh (University of California, Davis, USA)
- Chapter 9. Persistence as Performative: A Brief History of The Evolution of Two Rock Music Scenes in Iran
- Siavash Rokni
- Part III. Restaging Iran in Diaspora Spaces
- Chapter 10. Probing the Wounds of History: 444 Days, a World Premiere in San Francisco
- Babak Rahimi and Torange Yeghiazarian
- Chapter 11. Performing Glimpses of the Past in Diaspora:The Political Implications of Dance in Nowruz Parades
- Rana Salimi (University of California, San Diego, USA).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Performing Iran.
- ISBN:
- 9780755635139
- 0755635132
- 9780755635115
- 0755635116
- Publisher Number:
- 99988799584
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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