Relaying cinema in midcentury Iran : material cultures in transit / Kaveh Askari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Askari, Kaveh, author.

Series:

Cinema cultures in contact.

Cinema cultures in contact

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Iran--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effect on Iranian film culture in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and Iran became a notable site of world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process.

Contents:

An afterlife for junk prints

Circulation worries

Collage sound as industrial practice

The anxious exuberance of Tehran Noir

Eastern boys and failed heroes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Askari, Kaveh Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran

ISBN:

9780520974357

0520974352

OCLC:

1264734319