Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran

Kaveh Askari is Associate Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is author of Making Movies into Art.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TitlesIntroduction 1. An Afterlife for Junk Prints Film Traffic and Regional InfluenceSerials Out of SyncIronies of Appropriation    2. Circulation WorriesSustenance: Engineering and MaintenanceCopyright: The Public Good and CreativityLicense: Junk Prints and Affidavits of DestructionObsolescence: Dubbing Technologies and Leverage    3. Collage Sound as Industrial PracticeFounding and the FoundArchiving, Assembly, and RecognitionTemp Love, Out of SyncRelaying the Popular Song    4. The Anxious Exuberance of Tehran NoirThe Crime Thriller as Currency in the PressCurrency DisputesAesthetic Standards and Scarce ResourcesModularity and FluencyMixed Signals of Kin and Home    5. Eastern Boys and Failed HeroesYear of The HeroesFailures of The HeroesKimiai’s First Film CycleSponsorship, Nostalgia, and CollectingUnder the Sign of Rio BravoCoda    NotesIndex