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Contents
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Azadeh Fatehrad
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on Contributors x
- Foreword xiii
- Introduction 1
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Part I The Life and Work of Sohrab Shahid Saless
- 1 Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark: The Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless 7
- 2 Point of View, Symbolism and Music in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Utopia 28
- 3 The Blind Owls of Modernity: Of Protocols, Mirrors and Grimaces in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Films 43
- 4 A Simple Event from a Historical Perspective: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Realism? 64
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Part II Creative Exiles
- Introduction 77
- 5 Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema 79
- 6 The Aesthetic of Diaspora in Moving Image Practice 101
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Part III The Stateless Moving Image
- Introduction 121
- 7 Curating the Nomadic: Film and Video at Ambika P3 123
- 8 A Certain Tenderness 131
- 9 Statelessness as Practice: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Work of Exile 141
- 10 Screening Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Work: Contemporary Perspectives 151
- Interview by Behrang Samsami (Journalist) with Bert Schmidt (Shahid Saless’s Cinematographer) 159
- Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Filmography 166
- A Film about Shahid Saless 170
- Index 177
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on Contributors x
- Foreword xiii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I The Life and Work of Sohrab Shahid Saless
- 1 Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark: The Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless 7
- 2 Point of View, Symbolism and Music in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Utopia 28
- 3 The Blind Owls of Modernity: Of Protocols, Mirrors and Grimaces in Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Films 43
- 4 A Simple Event from a Historical Perspective: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Realism? 64
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Part II Creative Exiles
- Introduction 77
- 5 Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema 79
- 6 The Aesthetic of Diaspora in Moving Image Practice 101
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Part III The Stateless Moving Image
- Introduction 121
- 7 Curating the Nomadic: Film and Video at Ambika P3 123
- 8 A Certain Tenderness 131
- 9 Statelessness as Practice: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Work of Exile 141
- 10 Screening Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Work: Contemporary Perspectives 151
- Interview by Behrang Samsami (Journalist) with Bert Schmidt (Shahid Saless’s Cinematographer) 159
- Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Filmography 166
- A Film about Shahid Saless 170
- Index 177