Mute dreams, blind owls, and dispersed knowledges : Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry

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Mute dreams, blind owls, and dispersed knowledges : Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry

Title remainder

Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry

Statement of responsibility

Michael M. J. Fischer

Creator

• Fischer, Michael M. J., 1946-

Subject

• History
• Iran -- Civilization
• Motion pictures -- Iran -- History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Over the past decade Iranian films have received enormous international attention, garnering both critical praise and popular success. Combining his extensive ethnographic experience in Iran and his broad command of critical theory, Michael M.J. Fischer argues that the widespread appeal of Iranian cinema is based in a poetics that speaks not only to Iranʹs domestic cultural politics but also to the more general ethical dilemmas of a world simultaneously torn apart and pushed together. Approaching film as a tool for anthropological analysis, he illuminates how Iranian filmmakers have incorporated and remade the rich traditions of oral, literary, and visual media in Persian culture. -- Publisher description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

791.43/0955

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1993.5.I846

LC item number

F57 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography