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Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran

Material Cultures in Transit

Kaveh Askari author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:19th Apr '22

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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.
 

ISBN: 9780520329768

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 363g

260 pages