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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2 - The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978 (Paperback, New)
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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2 - The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978 (Paperback, New)
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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.Volume 2 spans the period of Mohammad Reza Shah’s rule,
from 1941 until 1978. During this time Iranian cinema flourished
and became industrialized, at its height producing more than ninety
films each year. The state was instrumental in building the
infrastructures of the cinema and television industries, and it
instituted a vast apparatus of censorship and patronage. During the
Second World War the Allied powers competed to control the movies
shown in Iran. In the following decades, two distinct indigenous
cinemas emerged. The more popular, traditional, and commercial
filmfarsi movies included tough-guy films and the “stewpot”
genre of melodrama, with plots reflecting the rapid changes in
Iranian society. The new-wave cinema was a smaller but more
influential cinema of dissent, made mostly by foreign-trained
filmmakers and modernist writers opposed to the regime. Ironically,
the state both funded and censored much of the new-wave cinema,
which grew bolder in its criticism as state authoritarianism
consolidated. A vital documentary cinema also developed in the
prerevolutionary era. A Social History of Iranian Cinema Volume 1:
The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941 Volume 2: The Industrializing Years,
1941–1978 Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984 Volume 4:
The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010
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