CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Hamid Keshmirshekan

Section 1Theorizing the Frame
Chapter One	Trauma, Memory, and History
Chapter Two	Récit de l’Exil Occidental
Chapter Three	Women Without Headaches
Section 2Visual Arts and Material Culture
Chapter Four	Artists Without Borders: On Contemporary Iranian Art
Chapter Five	The Gun and the Gaze: Shirin Neshat’s Photography
Chapter Six	Bordercrossings: Shirin Neshat’s Body of Evidence
Chapter Seven	Shirin Neshat: Transcending the Boundaries of an Imaginative Geography
Chapter Eight	Capturing the Illusion of Reality: Mapping the Visual Subconscious of a People in the Photography of Bahman Jalali
Chapter Nine	Tarek Al-Ghoussein Does Not Exist
Chapter Ten	Ardeshir Mohassess, Etcetera
Chapter Eleven	Shoja Azari: Making the Homely Unhomely
Chapter Twelve	Nicky Nodjoumi, Nahid Haghighat: Liberating Fragments against Totalizing Myths
Section 3World Cinema and Performing Art
Chapter Thirteen	The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Time of Terror
Chapter Fourteen	Warriors of Faith
Chapter Fifteen	The “300” Stroke
Chapter Sixteen	Amir Naderi’s New York
Chapter Seventeen	A Deadly Cinematic Subconscious

General Bibliography

Index