Author: Sadr, Hamid Riza
Title: Against the Wind : Politics of Iranian Cinema / Hamid Reza Sadr
Description: Tehran, Zarrin Publishing, 2002. orig.wrappers. 22x17cm, 531 pp.. Textual photo illustrations.. Some page-edge soil. Good. ¶ Contents: Early Years: From 1900 to the 1920s: The Crossroads bBween East &West; Movies Come to Iran: The Western Touch; The 1920s to the 1930s: The Rise of Iranian Modernism; Early Movies, New Tendencies; Newsreels, Pioneering & Propaganda Films in the Radio Days; Haji Agha, Cinema Actor: Betweeen Past & Future; Lor Girl: A Western Perspective; An Egyptian Touch;A New Chapter; The 1940s: A Period of Volatile Mix; Rules Governing Film Screenings; Fierce Competition Among Western Countries; Foreigners & Propaganda Films; The 1950s: Awakeing from the Big Sleep; Reverence for Tradition, Praise of the Past; The Coup in Iran & Cinematic Patriotism; A Dream of Splendour & Kingdom; Censorship Codes; Sudden Wealth & the Modern Bourgeoisie; The Politics of Iranian Melodrama; Song & Dance as New Phenomenon; Women: From Fallen Angels to Iconic Mothers; The Question of Women's Emancipation; Movie Stars & the Consumer Society; Political Turmoil & Loafers; From Happy Endings to Tragedies; The 1960s: Urban-Rural Conflict; Law & Disorder; Domestic Chaos; Censorship: The Usual Suspects; Politics & Masculine Subjectivity; A Popular Hero with a Heart of Glass; A Mirror on Society; The 1970s: From Extreme Optimism to Beastly Metamorphosis; A Thousand and One Nights of Trouble; The Birth of the Iranian Anti-Hero; Children of Viollence: A New Realism; The Illusion of Enhanced Power; Official Justice; Doomed Families; Body Obsession; The Security Service; The New Wave; Neither Oriental nor Occidental & the Advent of the Boom; The Struggle of the Workers; The Rush from Iran,

Keywords: Iran, Iranian, Motion Pictures, Movies Film, Political Politics, Cinema History, , ,