Fischer Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges

Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8551-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 486 Seiten

A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Michael M. J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

By Way of Acknowledgments:

Divided Selves and Doubled Genealogies vii

Prelude: After Epic, Writing, Painting, and Film 1

I. Speaking After Zarathustra: Ritual, Epic, and Philosophical Forms of Reason

Prologue 17

1. Yasna: Performative Ritual, Narrative Mnemonic 25

2. Shahnameh: Parable Logic 66

Coda: Illuminations: Philosophical Allegory 131

II. Seeing After Film: Textual and Cinematic Forms of Ethical Reason

3. Awaiting the Revolution: Surrealism Persian Style 151

4. Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Postrevolution Iranian Cinema 222

5. War Again: Qandahar, 911--
Figure and Discourse in Iranian Cinematic Writing 259

Coda: Balancing Acts (After 9/11) 355

Epilogue: Beyond “Mobile Armies of Metaphors”: Scheherezade Films the Games 370

Notes 395

Bibliography 433

Index 449

Über Autor(innen)

Michael M. J. Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (published by Duke University Press) and Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. He is coauthor of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition and Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences.