1st Edition
Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution Family and Nation in Filmfarsi
By Pedram Partovi
Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction: Imagining Iran in Popular Film
2. Making Popular Film in Iran
3. Heroes and Heroines of the Nation
4. Martyrdom and Self-Sacrifice
5. Exile
6. Fate and Agency
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Biography
Pedram Partovi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the American University
