Hamid NaficyA Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1
The Artisanal Era, 1897-1941
Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University. He is the author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, and (in Persian) Film-e Mostanad, a two-volume history of nonfiction cinema around the world. Naficy helped to launch ongoing annual Iranian film festivals in Los Angeles and Houston.
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Organization of the Volumes xxi
A Word about Illustrations xxvii
Preface. How It All Began xxix
Introduction. National Cinema, Modernity, and Iranian National Identity 1
1. Artisanal Silent Cinema in the Qajar Period 27
2. Ideological and Spectatorial Formations 71
3. State Formation and Nonfiction Cinema: Syncretic Westernization during
the First Pahlavi Period 141
4. A Transitional Cinema: The Feature Film Industry and Sound Cinema 197
5. Modernity's Ambivalent Subjectivity: Dandies and the Dandy Movie Genre
277
Notes 309
Bibliography 343
Index 371
