essay
Cinema as a political instrument
Modern Iran : the dialectics of continuity and change • Albany • Published In 1981 • Pages: 341-359, 439-440
By: Naficy, Hamid.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article gives a brief history of the movie industry in Iran, with a focus on the particular themes presented by Iranian films since their beginnings. The latter portion of this work briefly analyzes the relationship of these thematic elements to the evolving social and political fabric of Iran. The acculturative effects of foreign movies on the films of Iran are also clearly noted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethos
- Press
- Motion picture industry
- Government regulation
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hamid Naficy
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80019463
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians