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At the threshold : contemporary theatre, art, and music of Iran
- Title
- At the threshold : contemporary theatre, art, and music of Iran / Rana Esfandiary.
- Author
- Esfandiary, Rana
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2024.
- ©2024
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- Description
- 167 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "Iranian-ness" in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position. This study identifies the important social and political interventions made by theatrical and performance pieces, visual art, and electronic music that articulate and reformulate Iranian-ness by breaking away from fixed and constructed stereotypes projected on them by both the Islamic regime and Western power. This book explores the reception and context within which artworks become meaningful performative acts. Looking closely at the works of a notable female Iranian photographer, Shadi Ghadirian, in conjunction with the new generation of Iranian nonconformist artists/activists such as Tahmineh Monzavi and Hedieh Ahmadi; the visionary theatre productions of Ali Akbar Alizad; and radically untraditional sound/noise of the electronic music movement in Tehran, this book calls attention to the Iran-based artists who are tirelessly trying to raise awareness regarding the political violence imposed on Iranian identity at the legal (top-down) and everyday (bottom-up) levels. This volume will be of great interest to student and scholars in theatre and performance, photography, art, music, sociology, and politics"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
- Uniform Title
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JME 24-229
- ISBN
- 9781032193762
- 103219376X
- 9781032193786
- 1032193786
- 9781003258896 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000984644 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000984576 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023025216
- OCLC
- 1378093807
- Author
- Esfandiary, Rana, author.
- Title
- At the threshold : contemporary theatre, art, and music of Iran / Rana Esfandiary.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2024.
- Copyright Date
- ©2024
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge advances in theatre & performance studiesRoutledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Esfandiary, Rana. At the threshold London ; New York : Routledge, 2023 9781003258896 (DLC) 2023025217
- Research Call Number
- JME 24-229