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  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

    The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

    The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3

    The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Home, Exile, Homeland

    Film, Media, and the Politics of Place

    Edited by Hamid Naficy ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by accomplished critics to discuss the way film, television, music, and computer and electronic media are shaping identities and cultures in an increasingly ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Otherness and the Media

    The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged

    Edited by Hamid Naficy, Teshome H. Gabriel ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
    This anthology on otherness and the media, first published in 1993, was prompted by the proliferation of writings centring on issues of ‘difference’, ‘diversity’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘representation’ and ‘postcolonial’ discourses. Such issues and discourses question existing canons of criticism, theory and cultural practice but also because they suggest a new sense of direction in theorisation of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age

    The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran

    by Yahya R. Kamalipour, Jonathan M. Acuff, Sareh Afshar, Rasha Allam, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Payal Arora, Aliaa Dakroury, Patrick Disney, Mahmoud Eid, David J. Elliott, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Ali Fisher, Elham Gheytanchi, Mahboub E. Hashem, Christine Horz, Negin Hosseini, Wang Jing, Michele Bach Malek, Hamid Naficy, Abeer Najjar, Madhav D. Nalapat, Ashok Panikkar, Trita Parsi, Tomasz Pludowski, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Setareh Sabety, Mahmoud Sadri, Nancy Snow, Kourosh Ziabari, Banu Akdenizli, Ahmad Sadri, Li Xiguang ...
    Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of "small digital media" vis-à-vis the elections and global media coverage. Written in a non-technical, ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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    Art and Culture from the Frontline

    Edited by Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen, Nawara Mahfoud ...
    In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create art and literature that challenge official narratives. With contributions by over fifty artists and writers, both established and emerging, Syria Speaks explores the explosion of creativity and free ... Read more

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  • The Naked Blogger of Cairo

    Creative Insurgency in the Arab World

    by Marwan M. Kraidy ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the YearUprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. ... Read more

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  • Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution

    by Nadia Yaqub ...
    Palestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though modest, film effort within the national liberation campaign of a stateless people. Filmmakers working within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and through other channels filmed the revolution as it unfolded, including the Israeli bombings ... Read more

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  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Elements of Cinema

    by Robert Bird ...
    The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice, has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary European film, with its open narrative structures and slow, pensive mood; yet Tarkovsky has remained an ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Islamic Capitalism

    Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism

    by Vali Nasr ...
    Leading authority on the Islamic world and influential advisor to the Obama administration Vali Nasr shows that the West’s best hope of winning the battle against Islamic extremists is to foster the growth of a vibrant new Muslim middle class. This flourishing of Muslim bourgeoisie is reshaping the mind-set, politics, and even the religious values of Muslims in much the same way the Western ... Read more

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    What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters

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    The Arab World is a region that has been vastly misunderstood in the West. Arab Voices asks the questions, collects the answers, and shares the results that will help us see Arabs clearly. The book will bring into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding this important people. Here, James Zogby debuts a brand new, comprehensive poll, bringing numbers to ... Read more

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