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Cultural Dynamics of Iranian Post- Revolutionary Film Periodicals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Hamid Naficy
Hamid Naficy*
Affiliation:
Center for Cultural Studies, Rice University
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This essay is in two parts. Part I examines the dynamism and the political economy of the popular culture in Iran by focusing on the developments in the publication of film periodicals since the revolution of 1979. Part II provides a list of periodicals since the revolution that have dealt with cinema and the film industry.

Periodicals specializing in film and cinema as well as those which devote only a section of each issue to the motion-picture industry are all part of the larger cultural dynamics of what we might call the Iranian post-revolutionary popular culture. These specialized and allied periodicals cannot be considered in a vacuum since, as part of the dynamics of this popular culture, they are involved in a host of negotiations and conflicting relations with the clerical state, official censorship boards, advertisers, film producers, the publishing industry, and finally their own readers.

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Research Article
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 3-4 , 1992 , pp. 67 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1992

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References

1. Gozāresh-e film 1 (Ordibehesht 1369 Sh./198O): 2-4.

2. Hushang Golmakani, editor of Māhnāmeh-ye sīnemd'ī-ye film, in an interview with the author in September 1991.

3. For the dynamics of popular culture in Iran during the first decade of the Islamic government see Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Mohammadi, Ali, “Hegemony and Resistance: Media Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Quarterly Review of12 Film and Video 12, no. 4 (1991): 33-60CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. See Gardūn, nos. 15-16 (Mordad 1370 Sh./1991).

5. For details of the dynamics and the political economy of post-revolutionary cinema in Iran see Naficy, Hamid, “Islamizing Cinema in Iran,” in Farsoun, Samih K. and Mashayekhi, Mehrdad, eds, Iran: Political Culture in the Islamic Republic (London: Routledge, 1992)Google Scholar; idem, , “The Development of an Islamic Cinema in Iran,” in Third World Affairs, 1987 (London: Third World Foundation, 1987), 447-63Google Scholar.

6. See Naficy, Hamid, “Popular Culture of Iranian Exiles in Los Angeles,” inFriedlander, Jonathan and Kelly, Ron, eds, Irangeles: Life and Culture of Iranians in Los Angeles (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)Google Scholar.

7. Although every attempt has been made to be thorough in assembling this list, there are undoubtedly some omissions and inaccuracies which can be corrected with help from the readers.