Darioushs two important early social documentaries but problems arose in 1965, dealing with the cultural. The postrevolutionary iranian national cinema has garnered international popularity and critical acclaim since the late 1980s for being innovative, ethical, and compassionate. Hamid naficy, a social history of iranian cinema, volume 1. Hamid naficy is one of the worlds leading authorities on iranian film, and a social history of iranian cinema. On hamid naficys a social history of iranian cinema. With 83 million inhabitants, iran is the worlds 18th most populous country. Iran, a mountainous, arid, and ethnically diverse country of southwestern asia. A 4volume work of social history, film history, film theory, and film criticism.
Pdf on jan 1, 2012, arezou zalipour and others published naficy, hamid, a social history of iranian cinema volume 1. A brief history of iranian cinema, from haji agha to agha farhad. The chapter also explores the history of iranian cinema, noting the most. Iranian cinema cinema and media studies oxford bibliographies. A social history of iranian cinema, volume 4 by hamid naficy, 9780822348788, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Duke university press, 2011 and hamid naficy, a social history of iranian cinema, volume 2. The globalizing era, 19842010 social history of iranian cinema paperback hamid naficy on. A social history of iranian cinema, volume 4 duke university press. Naficy, hamid, a social history of iranian cinema volume 2. This was filmed in afghanistan in persian, english, and pashtu, an example of iranian multilingual and extraterritorial cinema that deals with. This third volume of hamid naficys epic and authoritative social history of iranian cinema is a goldmine of information for academics and researchers in the field of iranian cinema.
Lights, camera, revolution reorient middle eastern. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst 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. Duke university press a social history of iranian cinema. The cinematograph, invented in 1892, was the successor to the kinetoscope that granted viewers the ability to watch quality. Iranian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following. History of iranian cinema tavoos online irans first. He is currently the hamad bin khalifa althani professor in communication at northwestern university in the department of radiofilmtelevision, an affiliate faculty member in the department of art history, and a core.
A social history of iranian cinema farsi translation. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains iran s peculiar. I 188 june 1900, during his first trip to europe, mo. Drawing on firsthand interviews and detailed ethnographic research, this book explores how cinema is engaged in the dynamics of social change in contemporary iran. Lawrences lady chatterleys lover featuring fakhri khorvash and jamshid mashayekhi. Ruhollah khomeini ruhollah khomeini centre greeting supporters after returning to tehran, february 1979.
A social history of iranian cinema, volume 2 duke university press. The present study endeavors to present the facts about early elamite and iranian history in. This study inquires whether cinema is an alternative media or not. Melodrama and censorship in iranian cinema request pdf. The distinctive usage of allegory and symbolism is frequently. To best understand the roots of iranian cinema, one must perhaps travel back to the early 20 th century, when the qajar monarch mozaffareddin shah was shown cinematographic footage during a visit to france. Like any other cinema, out of the fifty or so films produced every year, only a few are outstanding and reliable, while the rest are commonplace works that make up the usual corpus of this. Contemporary iranian cinema university of california. Iranian new wave refers to a movement in iranian cinema. Repeated introductions of new cultures through conquerors and traders from aryan civilization until today have developed a kind of social subconscious filtration system which absorbs only the useful aspects of the frequently imposed, ever newer. The history of cinema in iran cannot be read in isolation with its political and social development that can be traced as far back as 1906 when the constitutional and subsequently bourgeois revolution rocked the whole internal nature of the country. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains irans peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in.
However, iran has had a longstanding history of cinema that began in 1900, with the introduction of film technology by the qajar court. Recent scholarship has tended to focus on the limitations imposed upon filmmakers by the theocracys ministry of culture and islamic guidance. The history of iran, which was commonly known until the mid20th century as persia in the western world, is intertwined with the history of a larger region, also to an extent known as greater iran, comprising the area from anatolia, the bosphorus, and egypt in the west to the borders of ancient india and the syr darya in the east, and from the caucasus and the eurasian steppe in the north to. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst 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. The industrializing years, 19411978 durham and london. Negotiating the politics of representation in iranian womens. The countrys cultural, national, and individual diversity is on view, in celluloid. The author traces the relationship of iranian cinema to recent social political movements in iran, namely reformism and womens movement, and shows how international acclaim has been instrumental. It started in 1964 with hajir darioushs second film serpents skin, which was based on d.
The artisanal era, 18971941, duke university press, durham, nc, 2011, isbn 9 7808 2234 7750, 456 pp. Today, this revitalized passion for film has iran making a major impact on the world. Iranian films are usually written and spoken in the persian language. Consequently iranian cinema of the fifties and sixties is a social cinema. Contrary to popular belief, this cinema was not always brash and vulgar. The heart of the persian empire of antiquity, iran has long played an important role in the region as an imperial power and as a factor in superpower rivalries. Imperialism and public health in iran s age of cholera. This is the more regrettable since the history of a section of the plateau, elam, cannot be neglected by any serious student of the ancient near east. Parcham journal of ahmad kasravi and his followers. This course will be an overview of postrevolutionary iranian national cinema.
Yet it is hamid naficys personal experience and investment that give this project a particular distinction. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst 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. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twentyfirst and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains irans peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in iran. Hamid naficy is one of the worlds leading authorities on iranian film, and a social history of iranian cinema is his magnum opus. Revolution is that of an evolving relationship both the filmmakers and the. Pdf naficy, hamid, a social history of iranian cinema. As detailed and as thorough as the previous two volumes, the renowned historian gives us an insight into some of the most turmoilfilled and sombre areas of the history of iranian cinema. Naficy, hamid, a social history of iranian cinema volume 1. Iranian revolution, also called islamic revolution, persian enqelabe eslami, popular uprising in iran in 197879 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on february 11, 1979, and led to the establishment of an islamic republic. The purpose of this work is to place third phase iranian film within the history of postrevolutionary iran then to construct a framework for analysis including thematic elements used by the newest generation of iranian directors. Art, society and the state, ziba mirhosseini divides postrevolutionary film. The industrializing years, 19411978, duke university press, durham, nc, 2011, isbn 9 7808 2234 7743.
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