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Zusatztext This innovative study of urban Iran and visual culture offers powerful, new insights into the politics of visibility in cities. Dibazar develops a sophisticated theoretical framework through which to interpret architecture, film, media and everyday spatial practices. The result is not only a highly original analysis of contemporary Tehran, but also a conceptual toolkit for understanding the experience of cities everywhere. Informationen zum Autor Pedram Dibazar is a lecturer in the Humanities at Amsterdam University College and a researcher at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Vorwort An analysis of everyday life in contemporary Iran that rethinks visual and urban cultures by examining modes of resistance and creative forces related to space, cultural forms, and media. Zusammenfassung In Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran , Pedram Dibazar argues that everyday life in Iran is a rich domain of social existence and cultural production. Regular patterns of day-to-day practice in Iran are imbued with forms of expressivity that are unmarked and inconspicuous, but have remarkable critical value for a cultural study of contemporary society. Blended into the rhythms of everyday life are nonconformist modes of presence, subtle in their visibility and non-confrontational in their resistance to the established societal norms and structures. This volume is about such everyday tactics and creativity as lived in space, visualised in cultural forms and communicated through media.Through its analysis of familiar everyday experiences, Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran covers a wide range of ordinary practices—such as walking, driving, shopping and doing or watching sports—and spatial conditions—such as streets, cars, rooftops, shopping centres and stadiums. It also explores a variety of cultural formations, including film, photography, architecture, literature, visual arts, television and digital media. This book offers new ways of thinking about visual and urban cultures by highlighting a politics of everyday life that is conditioned on concerns over visibility and presence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of PlatesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1 STREETS Capturing the non-visibility of everyday presenceUrban emptinessAbsent presenceAn orientation towards the everyday 2 CARS Inhabiting the everyday, enacting an embodied cinema of mobilityOn the move: Abbas Kiarostami’s wandering cars and extendedpresenceDwelling in mobilityMobilizing the lookAn embodied cinema of everyday interactionConclusion 3 ROOFTOPS The invisibility and ambiguity of leftover spaceRooftops and the everyday cityRooftops of Iran: Memoirs and popular cultureOn leftover spaceUrban rooftops in Iran: The ambivalence of leftover spaceRooftop protests: The everyday practice of shouting from rooftopsConclusion 4 SHOPPING CENTRES The ambivalence of the scopic regime of the strollAmbiguities of the shopping centreThe scopic regimes of shoppingGoing for a walk in the shopping centreConclusion 5 SPORTS The unrelenting visibility of wayward bodiesSports and everyday life in Iran: A short historyGeographies and visualities of sportThe hypervisibility of television sportsThe spectral community of television sports spectatorsConclusionConclusionWorks CitedIndex...
