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Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution - Family and Nation in Filmfarsi (Hardcover)
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Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution - Family and Nation in Filmfarsi (Hardcover)
Series: Iranian Studies
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Critics and academics have generally dismissed the commercial
productions of the late Pahlavi era, best known for their songs and
melodramatic plots, as shallow, derivative 'entertainment'.
Instead, they have concentrated on the more recent internationally
acclaimed art films, claiming that these constitute Iranian
'national' cinema, despite few Iranians having seen them. Film
discourse, and even fan talk, have long attempted to marginalize
the mainstream releases of the 1960s and 1970s with the moniker
filmfarsi, ironically asserting that such popular favorites were
culturally inauthentic. This book challenges the idea that
filmfarsi is detached from the past and present of Iranians. Far
from being escapist Hollywood fare merely translated into Persian,
it claims that the better films of this supposed genre must be
taken as both a subject of, and source for, modern Iranian history.
It argues that they have an appeal that relies on their ability to
rearticulate traditional courtly and religious ideas and forms to
problematize in unexpectedly complex and sophisticated ways the
modernist agenda that secular nationalist elites wished to impose
on their viewers. Taken seriously, these films raise questions
about standard treatments of Iran's modern history. By writing
popular films into Iranian history, this book advocates both a
fresh approach to the study of Iranian cinema, as well as a
rethinking of the modernity/tradition binary that has organized the
historiography of the recent past. It will appeal to those
interested in Iranian cinema, Iranian history and culture, and,
more broadly, readers dissatisfied with a dichotomous approach to
modernity.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Iranian Studies |
Release date: |
June 2017 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
Pedram Partovi
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
244 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-23053-8 |
Categories: |
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Arts & Architecture >
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LSN: |
1-138-23053-7 |
Barcode: |
9781138230538 |
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