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1 online resource |
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ReFocus: the international directors series |
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ReFocus: the international directors series.
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| Contents |
Foreword by Vahid Alaghband; Introduction by Azadeh Fatehrad; Part I: The Life and Work of Sohrab Shahid Saless; Chapter 1: Slow, Closed, Recessive, Formalist and Dark - the Cinema of Sohrab Shahid Saless, Hamid Naficy; Chapter 2: Point-of-View, Symbolism and Music in Sohrab Shahid Saless' Utopia, Christopher Gow; Chapter 3: The Blind Owls of Modernity. Of protocols, mirrors and grimaces in Sohrab Shahid Saless' films, Matthias Wittmann; Chapter 4: 'A Simple Event' from a Historical Perspective: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Realism?, Majid Eslami; Part II: Creative Exiles; Chapter 5: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema, Michelle Langford; Chapter 6: The Aesthetic of Diaspora in Moving Image Practice, Azadeh Fatehrad; Part III: The Stateless Moving Image; Chapter 7: Curating the Nomadic - Film and Video at Ambika P3, Michael Mazière; Chapter 8: A Certain Tenderness, Gareth Evans; Chapter 9: Statelessness as Practice: Sohrab Shahid Saless and the work of exile, Pierre d'Alancaisez; Chapter 10: Screening Sohrab Shahid Saless' Work: Contemporary Perspectives, Dario Marchiori; Interview by Behrang Samsami with Bert Schmidt; Filmography; Film about Shahid Saless: Sohrab, A Journey (2016), produced by Omid Abdollahi, Index |
| Summary |
In this - the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement - a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2020) |
| Subject |
S̲ālis̲, Suhrāb Shahīd, 1943 or 1944-1998 or 1999 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
S̲ālis̲, Suhrāb Shahīd, 1943 or 1944-1998 or 1999 fast |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Iran -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Iran
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fatehrad, Azadeh, editor, author
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| ISBN |
9781474456418 |
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1474456413 |
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1474456391 |
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9781474456395 |
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9781474456425 |
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1474456421 |
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