Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran

ISBN-13: 9780815361183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 338 str.

Bianca Devos; Christoph Werner

Opis

Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler.

Spis treści

Introduction – Bianca Devos & Chrstoph Werner Part I: Intellectuals and Technocrats: Key Figures in Iran’s Cultural Modernization 1 Modernization in Literary History: Malek al-Sho’ara Bahar’s Stylistics – Rozxanne Haag-Higuchi 2 Christl Catanzaro:Policy or Puzzle? The Foundation of the University of Tehran between Ideal Conception and Pragmatic Realization – Christl Catanzaro 3 Mir Mehdi Varzandeh and the Introduction of Modern Physical Education in Iran – H.E. Chehabi 4 Modernization of Iranian Music During the Reign of Reza Shah – Keivan Aghamohseni 5 The King’s White Walls: Modernism and Bourgeois Architecture – Talinn Grigor Part II: The Shah: State Politics and Authoritarian Modernization 6 Archaeology and the Iranian National Museum: Qajar and Early Pahlavi Cultural Policies – Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam 7 Depicting Power: Reza Shah’s Rule, Cabinet Politics and the Commemorative Stamp Set of 1935 – Roman Siebertz 8 Press Censorship in the Reza Shah era, 1925-1941 – Karim Soleimani Part III: Life Under Reza Shah: New Bourgeois Culture and other Forms of Practiced Modernity 9 Drama and Operetta at the "Red Lion and Sun": Theatre in Tabriz 1927-41 10 "Newly Hatched Chickens": Bozorg 'Alavi on the Young Literary Scene of the 1930s – Roja Dehdarian 11 Giving Birth to a New Generation: Midwifery in the Public Health System of the Reza Shah Era – Elham Malekzadeh 12 Engineering a Modern Society? Adoptions of New Technologies in Early Pahlavi Iran 13 Religious Aspects in Communication processes in Early Pahlavi Iran – Katja Follmer