Reform Cinema in Iran - Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic

Informationen zum Autor Blake Atwood is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor, with Peter Decherney, of Iranian Cinema in a Global Context: Policy, Politics, and Form (2014). Klappentext An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences. Zusammenfassung An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction: Revolutionary Cinema and the Logic of Reform 1. When Love Entered Cinema: Mysticism and the Emerging Poetics of Reform 2. Screening Reform: Campaign Movies, Documentaries, and Urban Tehran 3. Video Democracies: Or, The Death of the Filmmaker 4. Who Killed the Tough Guy? Continuity and Rupture in the Filmf¿rsi Tradition 5. Film Archives and Online Videos: The Search for Reform in Post-Khatami Iran Conclusion: Iran's Cinema Museum and Political Unrest Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Product details

• Authors: Blake Atwood, Blake Robert Atwood
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2016
• EAN: 9780231178174
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17817-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, film; Islam; Middle East