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Performing Iran : culture, performance, theatre / editor, Babak Rahimi.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Rahimi, Babak, editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
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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