CiNii Books - Relaying cinema in midcentury Iran : material cultures in transit

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- Askari, Kaveh

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Relaying cinema in midcentury Iran : material cultures in transit

Kaveh Askari

（Cinema cultures in contact, 2）

University of California Press, c2022

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Titles Introduction 1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints Film Traffic and Regional Influence Serials Out of Sync Ironies of Appropriation 2. Circulation Worries Sustenance: Engineering and Maintenance Copyright: The Public Good and Creativity License: Junk Prints and Affidavits of Destruction Obsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage 3. Collage Sound as Industrial Practice Founding and the Found Archiving, Assembly, and Recognition Temp Love, Out of Sync Relaying the Popular Song 4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran Noir The Crime Thriller as Currency in the Press Currency Disputes Aesthetic Standards and Scarce Resources Modularity and Fluency Mixed Signals of Kin and Home 5. Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes Year of The Heroes Failures of The Heroes Kimiai's First Film Cycle Sponsorship, Nostalgia, and Collecting Under the Sign of Rio Bravo Coda Notes Index

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