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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Section 1 THEORIZING THE FRAME
Chapter One TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND HISTORY*
Philosophy
Theory
Praxis
Chapter Two RÉCIT DE L’EXIL OCCIDENTAL*
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Chapter Three WOMEN WITHOUT HEADACHES*
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Section 2 Visual Arts and Material Culture
Chapter Four ARTISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: ON CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART*
One: Berlin
Two: Tehran
Three: New York
Four: Artists without Border
Chapter Five THE GUN AND THE GAZE: SHIRIN NESHAT’S PHOTOGRAPHY*
Chapter Six BORDERCROSSINGS: SHIRIN NESHAT’S BODY OF EVIDENCE*
Bordercrossings
The Global Gaze
The Local Look
Bodily Resurrection
Two Trilogies and a Soliloquy
Chapter Seven SHIRIN NESHAT: TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF AN IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHY*
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Chapter Eight CAPTURING THE ILLUSION OF REALITY: MAPPING THE VISUAL SUBCONSCIOUS OF A PEOPLE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BAHMAN JALALI*
The Making of a Visual Modernity
The Art of the Impossible
The Totality of the Lifework
The Idiomaticity of the Artwork
Investing Soul in a Soulless Machine
The Making of Iranian Aesthetic Modernity
Chapter Nine TAREK AL-GHOUSSEIN DOES NOT EXIST*
Studium Intra Punctum
Living in an Acronym
Narrations and Aberrations
Narrating the Unwritten
Chapter Ten ARDESHIR MOHASSESS, ETCETERA*
Chapter Eleven SHOJA AZARI: MAKING THE HOMELY UNHOMELY*
The Pain of the Presence
The Formal Destruction of the Sacred
Re-Imagining the Sacred
The Verfremdungseffekt Effect of the Uncanny
Renewed Pacts of Piety
Chapter Twelve NICKY NODJOUMI, NAHID HAGHIGHAT: LIBERATING FRAGMENTS AGAINST TOTALIZING MYTHS*
Dislocated Brushes
Homo Satiricus
Comrades in Brush
Section 3 World Cinema and Performing Art
Chapter Thirteen THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL IN THE TIME OF TERROR*
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Chapter Fourteen WARRIORS OF FAITH*
Strange Objections
Being Frank with Ridley
Nothing and Everything
Exquisitely Civilized
Chapter Fifteen THE “300” STROKE*
Chapter Sixteen AMIR NADERI’S NEW YORK*
Chapter Seventeen A DEADLY CINEMATIC SUBCONSCIOUS*
General Bibliography
Index
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