Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. A Note on Transliteration vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Revolutionary Cinema and the Logic of Reform 1
6. 1. When Love Entered Cinema: Mysticism and the Emerging Poetics of Reform 27
7. 2. Screening Reform: Campaign Movies, Documentaries, and Urban Tehran 61
8. 3. Video Democracies: Or, The Death of the Filmmaker 95
9. 4. Who Killed the Tough Guy? Continuity and Rupture in the Filmfārsi Tradition 136
10. 5. Film Archives and Online Videos: The Search for Reform in Post-Khatami Iran 166
11. Conclusion: Iran’s Cinema Museum and Political Unrest 197
12. Notes 207
13. Bibliography 230
14. Filmography 243
15. Index 245