{"product_id":"relaying-cinema-in-midcentury-iran-9780520329768","title":"Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effect on Iranian film culture in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and Iran became a notable site of world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Titles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints \u003cbr\u003e    Film Traffic and Regional Influence\u003cbr\u003e    Serials Out of Sync\u003cbr\u003e    Ironies of Appropriation\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Circulation Worries\u003cbr\u003e    Sustenance: Engineering and Maintenance\u003cbr\u003e    Copyright: The Public Good and Creativity\u003cbr\u003e    License: Junk Prints and Affidavits of Destruction\u003cbr\u003e    Obsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Collage Sound as Industrial Practice\u003cbr\u003e    Founding and the Found\u003cbr\u003e    Archiving, Assembly, and Recognition\u003cbr\u003e    Temp Love, Out of Sync\u003cbr\u003e    Relaying the Popular Song\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran Noir\u003cbr\u003e    The Crime Thriller as Currency in the Press\u003cbr\u003e    Currency Disputes\u003cbr\u003e    Aesthetic Standards and Scarce Resources\u003cbr\u003e    Modularity and Fluency\u003cbr\u003e    Mixed Signals of Kin and Home\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes\u003cbr\u003e    Year of The Heroes\u003cbr\u003e    Failures of The Heroes\u003cbr\u003e    Kimiai’s First Film Cycle\u003cbr\u003e    Sponsorship, Nostalgia, and Collecting\u003cbr\u003e    Under the Sign of Rio Bravo\u003cbr\u003e    Coda\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402929578327,"sku":"9780520329768","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/relaying-cinema-in-midcentury-iran-9780520329768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}