Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran

Material Cultures in Transit
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-32976-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 260 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: Cinema Cultures in Contact

Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effect on Iranian film culture in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and Iran became a notable site of world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Askari, Kaveh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Titles

Introduction

1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints  Film Traffic and Regional Influence  Serials Out of Sync  Ironies of Appropriation

2. Circulation Worries  Sustenance: Engineering and Maintenance  Copyright: The Public Good and Creativity  License: Junk Prints and Affidavits of Destruction  Obsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage

3. Collage Sound as Industrial Practice  Founding and the Found  Archiving, Assembly, and Recognition  Temp Love, Out of Sync  Relaying the Popular Song

4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran Noir  The Crime Thriller as Currency in the Press  Currency Disputes  Aesthetic Standards and Scarce Resources  Modularity and Fluency  Mixed Signals of Kin and Home

5. Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes  Year of The Heroes  Failures of The Heroes  Kimiai’s First Film Cycle  Sponsorship, Nostalgia, and Collecting  Under the Sign of Rio Bravo  Coda

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is author of Making Movies into Art.