Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean slavery : Iran's cinematic archive /

"Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. Revealing the politicized clash between commercial cinema and alternative filmmaking, Parisa Vaziri shows th...

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Main Author:	Vaziri, Parisa, 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Black people in motion pictures > History and criticism. Slavery in motion pictures > History and criticism. Motion pictures > Iran > History. Slavery > Indian Ocean Region > History. Black people in motion pictures. Slavery in motion pictures. Personnes noires au cinéma. Esclavage au cinéma. Personnes noires au cinéma > Histoire et critique. Esclavage au cinéma > Histoire et critique. Black people in motion pictures Motion pictures Slavery Slavery in motion pictures Indian Ocean Region Iran History

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Summary:	"Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. Revealing the politicized clash between commercial cinema and alternative filmmaking, Parisa Vaziri shows that Iranian film preserves the legacy of African slavery's longue durée in ways that resist its overpowering erasure in the popular and historical imagination"--
Physical Description:	xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781517914745 1517914744 9781517914752 1517914752