Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is author of Making Movies into Art.   

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Titles

Introduction 

1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints 
   Film Traffic and Regional Influence
   Serials Out of Sync
   Ironies of Appropriation
   
2. Circulation Worries
   Sustenance: Engineering and Maintenance
   Copyright: The Public Good and Creativity
   License: Junk Prints and Affidavits of Destruction
   Obsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage
   
3. Collage Sound as Industrial Practice
   Founding and the Found
   Archiving, Assembly, and Recognition
   Temp Love, Out of Sync
   Relaying the Popular Song
   
4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran Noir
   The Crime Thriller as Currency in the Press
   Currency Disputes
   Aesthetic Standards and Scarce Resources
   Modularity and Fluency
   Mixed Signals of Kin and Home
   
5. Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes
   Year of The Heroes
   Failures of The Heroes
   Kimiai’s First Film Cycle
   Sponsorship, Nostalgia, and Collecting
   Under the Sign of Rio Bravo
   Coda
   
Notes
Index