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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Bibliographic Details
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

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Indian Ocean Slavery, Cinema, and the Perversion of Context
Blackface and the Immemorial : Fīlmfārsi's Navel
Zār and the Anxieties of the Iranian New Wave
Irano-Afro-Iran : The Racial Aesthetic
The Black Maternal and the Interruptive Imagination : Bashu
Conclusion. The Collective for Black Iranians : On Digital Anamnesia.