Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges : Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry


Michael M. J. Fischer
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 2004.
Omfang
1 online resource (487 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; By Way of Acknowledgments: Divided Selves and Doubled Genealogies; Prelude: After Epic, Writing, Painting and Film; I. Speaking After Zarathustra: Ritual, Epic, and Philosophical Forms of Reason; Prologue; 1. Yasna: Permative Ritual, Narrative Mnemonic; 2. ""Shahnameh"": Parable Logic; Coda: Illuminationism: Philosophical Allegory; II. Seeing After Film: Textual and Cinematic Forms of Ethical Reason; 3. Awaiting the Revolution: Surrealism Persian Style; 4. Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Postrevolution Iranian Cinema. - 5. War Again: Qandahar, 911- Figure and Discourse in Iranian Cinematic WritingCoda: Balancing Acts (After 9/11); Epilogue: Beyond ""Mobile Armies of Metaphors"": Scheherezade Films the Games; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - A leading anthropologist examines Iranian media in its cultural and historical contexts, situating it between older oral narratives and currently proliferating postmodern forms.
Emner
Iran - Civilization
Motion pictures - History - Iran
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
iran muntlig litteratur film dikt antropologi sosialantropologi kunnskap
Sjanger
Dewey
ISBN
082233285X. - 0822332981

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