Zeydabadi-Nejad - The Politics of Iranian Cinema, Ebooks (various), Geopolitics + Sociology
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]The Politics of Iranian
Cinema
Film and society in the Islamic Rep
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
�
�o��!�n�
��up
LONDON AND NEW YORK
�
I
First publ ished 201 0 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Mi lton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OXI44RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routl edge
270 Mad ison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Routledge is an imprint o/the Taylor
&
Francis Group, an iforma business
D
2010 Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales
&
Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon
Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ Intenational Ltd, Padstow, Cornwa ll
All rights reserved. No part of th is book may be reprinted or
reproduced or uti lised in anyfonn or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereater
invented, including photocopying and record ing, or in any
infonation storage or retrieval system, without peni ssion in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for th is book is avai lable
from the British Library
Library o/Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Zeydabadi-Nejad, Saeed.
The politics of Iran ian cinema: ilm and society in the Islamic Repub lic
I
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad.
p. cm.-(Iranian stud ies; 6
)
Based on the author's thes is (doctoral)-School of Oriental and African Studies, 2006.
Includes bibliographical refere nces and index.
Includes ilmography.
I.
Motion pictures-Social aspects-Iran. 2. Motion pictures-Political aspects-Iran
3. Motion picture industry-Govenment policy-Iran.
I.
Title.
PN1993.5.I846Z49 2009
384'.80955-dc22
20090148 58
ISBNI 0: 0-41545 536-7 (hbk)
ISBNl 0: 041545537-5 (pbk)
ISBN
1
0: 0-203-86847-1 (ebk)
ISBN13 : 978-0-415-45536-7 (hbk)
ISBN13 : 978-0-41 545 537-4 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-86847-8 (ebk)
To Emmanuela and Sophia Shirin
And to the memory of my parents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of tables
List of illustrations
IX
XI
xii
1
Introduction
An overview of media research 3
Areas of inquiy 5
Theoreticalframework 6
Chapter outline 28
2
State control oflranian cinema: the shiting 'red lines'
30
Introduction 30
Cinema and the state before the revolution 31
The Islamic revolution and its atermath 34
Conclusion 53
3
'Social ilms'
55
Introduction 55
Marriage of the Blessed (Makhmalbaf 1989) 56
Glass Agency (Hatamikia 1997) 69
House on the Water (Farmanara 2001) 76
The Lizard (Tabrizi 2004) 90
A note on the economics of Iranian cinema 100
Conclusion 102
4 'Women's ilms'
104
introduction 104
Changes to women's socialposition in contemporay Iran:
an overview 106
Background to women and lranian cinema 107
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]