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• Title:A social history of Iranian cinema / Hamid Naficy.
  
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• Author/Creator:Naficy, Hamid.
  
• Published/Created:Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011-2012.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN1993.5.I846 N34
    
  • Number of Items:4
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1-4
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Motion pictures--Iran--History.
  Motion pictures--Social aspects--Iran.
  
• Description:4 v. : ill. ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran. This comprehensive social history unfolds across four volumes, each of which can be appreciated on its own"--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780822347545 (v. 1 (alk). paper)
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  9780822347552 (v. 2 (alk). paper)
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  0822348780 (v. 4 (pbk). : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:v. 1. The artisanal era, 1897-1941. Preface: how it all began ; Introduction: national cinema, modernity, and Iranian national identity ; Artisanal silent cinema in the Qajar Period ; Ideological and spectatorial formations ; State formation and nonfiction cinema: syncretic Westernization during the first Pahlavi Period ; A transitional cinema: the feature film industry and sound cinema ; Modernity's ambivalent sujectivitiy: dandies and the dandy movie genre
  v. 2. The industrializing years, 1941-1978. International haggling over Iranian public screens ; The statist documentary cinema and its alternatives ; Commerical cinema's evolution: from artisanal mode to hybrid production ; Family melodramas and comedies: the stewpot movie genre ; Males, masculinity, and power: the tough-guy movie genre and its evolution ; A dissident cinema: new-wave films and the end of an era
  v. 3. The Islamicate period, 1978-1984. Transition from "cinema of idolatry" to an "Islamicate cinema" ; Documenting the uprising, the revolution, and the emerging opposition ; Consolidating a new "Islamicate" cinema and film culture
  v. 4. The globalizing era, 1984-2010. The resurgence of nonfiction cinema: postrevolutionary documentaries and fiction war films ; Under cover, on screen: women's representation and women's cinema ; All certainties melt into thin air: art-house cinema, a "postal" cinema ; Emergent contestatory films, media culture, and public diplomacy ; Iranian, but with a different accent: a cinema of displacement or a displaced cinema? ; Appendix A: Iranian films in distribution (c. 2005) ; Appendix B: Film house of Iran's film collection ; Appendix C: International film and video center Iranian film collection.