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The Resource Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran : the life and legacy of a popular female artist, Kamran Talattof

Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran : the life and legacy of a popular female artist, Kamran Talattof

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Summary
For more than a century Iran[']s social, political, and cultural history has been defined by a struggle toward or away from modernity. In this book Talatoff makes a compelling argument that, despite revolutionary upheaval, the ideals of modernity remain remote due to the absence of a modern notion of sexuality. He illustrates his assertion through the life of Shahrzad, a celebrated stage and screen actress, dancer, journalist, and published poet who eventually became imprisoned and later homeless in the streets of Tehran. Tracing her career along with other pre-revolutionary women artists, Talatoff explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, media, and modernity in Iran. --Book Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)
Contents
  • Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction
  • Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony
  • Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time
  • Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film
  • Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity
  • Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists
  • Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword
Isbn
9780815651390
Instance
Label
Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran : the life and legacy of a popular female artist
Title
Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran
Title remainder
the life and legacy of a popular female artist
Statement of responsibility
Kamran Talattof
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
For more than a century Iran[']s social, political, and cultural history has been defined by a struggle toward or away from modernity. In this book Talatoff makes a compelling argument that, despite revolutionary upheaval, the ideals of modernity remain remote due to the absence of a modern notion of sexuality. He illustrates his assertion through the life of Shahrzad, a celebrated stage and screen actress, dancer, journalist, and published poet who eventually became imprisoned and later homeless in the streets of Tehran. Tracing her career along with other pre-revolutionary women artists, Talatoff explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, media, and modernity in Iran. --Book Jacket
Member of
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
E7B
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Talattof, Kamran
Dewey number
700.82/0955
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
PK6561.S274
LC item number
Z73 2011eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Saʻīdī, Kubrā
  • Women authors, Iranian
  • Women artists
  • Women dancers
  • Women in popular culture
  • Sex
  • Social change
  • Ideology
  • Iran
  • Iran
  • Saʻīdī, Kubrā
  • Saʻīdī, Kubrā
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • ART
  • ART
  • HISTORY
  • Ideology
  • Intellectual life
  • Sex
  • Social change
  • Social conditions
  • Women artists
  • Women authors, Iranian
  • Women dancers
  • Women in popular culture
  • Iran
Label
Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran : the life and legacy of a popular female artist, Kamran Talattof
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction -- Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony -- Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time -- Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film -- Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity -- Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists -- Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword
Control code
759158748
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780815651390
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt1hzb3bn
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)759158748
Label
Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran : the life and legacy of a popular female artist, Kamran Talattof
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction -- Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony -- Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time -- Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film -- Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity -- Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists -- Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword
Control code
759158748
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780815651390
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt1hzb3bn
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)759158748

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