Preface: How It All Began

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Organization of the Volumes xxi
6. A Word about Illustrations xxvii
7. Preface: How It All Began xxix
8. Introduction: National Cinema, Modernity, and Iranian National Identity 1
9. 1. Artisanal Silent Cinema in the Qajar Period 27
10. 2. Ideological and Spectatorial Formations 71
11. 3. State Formation and Nonfiction Cinema: Syncretic Westernization during the First Pahlavi Period 141
12. 4. A Transitional Cinema: The Feature Film Industry and Sound Cinema 197
13. 5. Modernity’s Ambivalent Subjectivity: Dandies and the Dandy Movie Genre 277
14. Notes 309
15. Bibliography 343
16. Index 371