Iranian cosmopolitanism : a cinematic history /

From popular and 'New Wave' pre-revolutionary films of Fereydoon Goleh and Abbas Kiarostami to post-revolutionary films of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Iranian cinema has produced a range of films and directors that have garnered international fame and earned a global following. Golbarg Rekabtal...

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Main Author: Rekabtalaei, Golbarg, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cinematic Imaginaries and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Cinematic Education, Cinematic Sovereignty: The Creation of a Cosmo-National Cinema
  • Industrial Professionalisation: the Emergence of a "National" Commercial Cinema
  • "Film-Farsi": Everyday Constituencies of a Cosmopolitan Popular Cinema
  • Cinematic Revolution: Cosmopolitan Alter-cinema of Pre-revolutionary Iran
  • Conclusion.