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Informationen zum Autor Golbarg Rekabtalaei is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern history at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015. She is interested in the relationships between cinematic image and space, modernity, cosmopolitanism, urbanisation, nationalism, and revolutions. Her research specifically focuses on the role of cinema, in concrete form and onscreen, in facilitating cosmopolitan imaginations and hybrid subjectivities in early twentieth-century Tehran. Rekabtalaei was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at North Carolina State University from 2015 to 2017. Klappentext In the lead-up to the revolution, Iran's cinematic culture reveals much about its society and politics. With her unique take, Golbarg Rekabtalaei opens new avenues for the understanding of cosmopolitanism in Iran and the ways in which it became a style of national imagination through the lens of cinema. Zusammenfassung In the lead-up to the revolution, Iran's cinematic culture reveals much about its society and politics. With her unique take, Golbarg Rekabtalaei opens new avenues for the understanding of cosmopolitanism in Iran and the ways in which it became a style of national imagination through the lens of cinema. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Cinematic imaginaries and cosmopolitanism in the early twentieth century; 2. Cinematic education, cinematic sovereignty: the creation of a cosmo-national cinema; 3. Industrial professionalisation: the emergence of a 'national' commercial cinema; 4. 'Film-Farsi': everyday constituencies of a cosmopolitan popular cinema; 5. Cinematic revolution: cosmopolitan alter-cinema of pre-revolutionary Iran; Conclusion.
