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Mute dreams, blind owls, and dispersed knowledges : Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry
- Title
- Mute dreams, blind owls, and dispersed knowledges : Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry / Michael M.J. Fischer.
- Author
- Fischer, Michael M. J., 1946-
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1993.5.I846 F57 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 474 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-448) and index.
- Contents
- Speaking after Zarathustra : ritual, epic, and philosophical forms of reason -- Yasna : performative ritual, narrative mnemonic -- Shahnameh : parable logic -- Coda : illuminationism, philosophical allegory -- Seeing after film : textual and cinematic forms of ethical reason -- Awaiting the revolution : surrealism Persian style -- Filmic judgment and cultural critique : the work of art, ethics and religion in post-revolution Iranian cinema -- War again : Qandahar, 911 -- figure and discourse in Iranian cinematic writing -- Coda : balancing acts (after 9/11) -- Beyond "Mobile Armies of Metaphors": Scheherezade films the games.
- ISBN
- 082233285X
- 9780822332855
- 0822332981
- 9780822332985
- LCCN
- 2004006055
- OCLC
- ocm54774998
- 54774998
- SCSB-14708715
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library