Cooley Cooley
Biographic Data
| ID | 8803250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cooley Cooley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cooley |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooley |
| SIGNATURE | COOLEY C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Soundscape of a National Cinema Industry
This article considers the release of Siamak Yasemi's 1965 commercial Iranian hit Qarun's Treasure in the context of Iranian cinema's historic and competitive relationship with Egyptian and Indian cinemas in the mid-twentieth century. I trace the development of a national cinema industry in Iran through sound practice in order to demonstrate that fīlmfārsī was born out of its sonic and material connections to the film industries in the Middle Eas…
Record with Two Songs from the Iranian Film Qarun's Treasure (1965) Found in India
This essay considers an Iranian record of two film songs from the megahit Qarun's Treasure (1965) that was found in Bombay and is now owned by a private col lector in the US. I analyze the record's material qualities and circulation to demonstrate that midcentury Iranian commercial cinema's connections to sonic infrastructures in the Middle East and South Asia are integral to its history. Through focus on the record's travels and sonic qualities,…
A Cycle, Not a Phase
A Cycle, Not a PhaseLove Between Magical Girls Amidst the Trauma of Puella Magi Madoka Magica Kevin Cooley (bio) The specter of the mahō shōjo (magical girl) fuses the form and content of animated narratives. She gains power not from a comic book fall into a vat of chemicals, or a bite from a magic-science spider, but from the genre itself. Like the gender role she so extravagantly over-performs (and out-performs), she is, to borrow from Judith B…
T.F. Wade in China
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T.F. Wade in China
Soundscape of a National Cinema Industry
This article considers the release of Siamak Yasemi's 1965 commercial Iranian hit Qarun's Treasure in the context of Iranian cinema's historic and competitive relationship with Egyptian and Indian cinemas in the mid-twentieth century. I trace the development of a national cinema industry in Iran through sound practice in order to demonstrate that fīlmfārsī was born out of its sonic and material connections to the film industries in the Middle Eas…
Record with Two Songs from the Iranian Film Qarun's Treasure (1965) Found in India
This essay considers an Iranian record of two film songs from the megahit Qarun's Treasure (1965) that was found in Bombay and is now owned by a private col lector in the US. I analyze the record's material qualities and circulation to demonstrate that midcentury Iranian commercial cinema's connections to sonic infrastructures in the Middle East and South Asia are integral to its history. Through focus on the record's travels and sonic qualities,…
A Cycle, Not a Phase
A Cycle, Not a PhaseLove Between Magical Girls Amidst the Trauma of Puella Magi Madoka Magica Kevin Cooley (bio) The specter of the mahō shōjo (magical girl) fuses the form and content of animated narratives. She gains power not from a comic book fall into a vat of chemicals, or a bite from a magic-science spider, but from the genre itself. Like the gender role she so extravagantly over-performs (and out-performs), she is, to borrow from Judith B…
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)