Michael M J Fischer

Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges

Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry

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Produktbeschreibung

A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332985
• ISBN-10: 0822332981
• Artikelnr.: 21505394

Autorenporträt

Michael M. J. Fischer

Inhaltsangabe

By Way of Acknowledgments:
Divided Selves and Doubled Genealogies vii
Prelude: After Epic, Writing, Painting, and Film 1
I. Speaking After Zarathustra: Ritual, Epic, and Philosophical Forms of
Reason
> Prologue 17
1. Yasna: Performative Ritual, Narrative Mnemonic 25
2. Shahnameh: Parable Logic 66
Coda: Illuminations: Philosophical Allegory 131
II. Seeing After Film: Textual and Cinematic Forms of Ethical Reason
3. Awaiting the Revolution: Surrealism Persian Style 151
4. Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and
Religion in Postrevolution Iranian Cinema 222
5. War Again: Qandahar, 911--
> Coda: Balancing Acts (After 9/11) 355
Epilogue: Beyond “Mobile Armies of Metaphors”: Scheherezade Films the Games
370
Notes 395
Bibliography 433
Index 449