Popular Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution: Family and Nation in Fīlmfārsī

ISBN-13: 9780367885403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Pedram Partovi

Opis

This book sheds light on the prolific but little studied Iranian popular cinema of the 1960s and 70s. Critics generally dismiss such films, best known for their songs and melodramatic plots, as shallow, derivative entertainment. The sarcastic moniker filmfarsi (“Persian film”) was even employed to refer to the popular

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Pedram Partovi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the American University