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

Blake Atwood

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

Reform Cinema in Iran

Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic

Blake Atwood

In the series Film and Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.7312/atwo17816

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About this book

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Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

Reform Cinema is not only an essential book for institutions that teach Iranian cinema, but also a very valuable source for those studying the reform movement's place in Iranian history.

Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine:
In Reform Cinema in Iran, Atwood masterfully captures the complex and paradoxical relations between filmmaking and the desire for reconfigurations of the revolution's objectives. Particularly significant is his analysis of how film as a medium and new technologies of representation were instrumental in setting the terms of the reform movement. An important contribution to the study of Iranian cinema and contemporary Iran's cultural production.

Roxanne Varzi, University of California, Irvine:
From mysticism to music videos Blake Atwood's Reform Cinema in Iran gives us a comprehensive and alternative lens to understand recent Iranian film. It is an important book for students and lovers of Iranian cinema.

Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University:
Keenly aware of the collaboration between postcolonial cinemas and political movements, Atwood explores the Iranian film industry of the 1980s and 90s. Reform Cinema in Iran vividly reveals how Iranian films of that era and new digital technologies that captured them, participated in the definition of democracy, human rights, and civil society in Iran, thereby supplanting the revolutionary rhetoric of resistance and imperialism that had swept the nation a decade earlier.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
A Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Revolutionary Cinema and the Logic of Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. When Love Entered Cinema: Mysticism and the Emerging Poetics of Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Screening Reform: Campaign Movies, Documentaries, and Urban Tehran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
3. Video Democracies: Or, The Death of the Filmmaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
4. Who Killed the Tough Guy? Continuity and Rupture in the Filmfārsi Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
5. Film Archives and Online Videos: The Search for Reform in Post-Khatami Iran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Conclusion: Iran’s Cinema Museum and Political Unrest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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- Other: 20 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: December 3, 2018
ISBN: 9780231543149