Nonfiction Fiction
Documentaries on Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9978386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamid Naficy (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 217-238 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210867908701556 |
| OpenAlex | W2082533731 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 1 |
Iran has often been the subject of many nonfiction films and television programs produced by Western countries, particularly Britain and the United States. Although these films about Iran were made by a diverse group of private and governmental agencies, overall they have tended both to emphasize the supremacy of West over the ancient, backward East and to support the evolving policies and ideologies toward Iran held by the Western governments and their multi-national corporations. Western audiences who viewed these films and programs as enployees of corporations, members of armed forces units, students in schools or the general public, must have experienced a certain self-congratulatory gratification with their own ideological and material conditions and a confidence in the policies espoused by their governments toward underdeveloped countries such as Iran. From the scant information available, it seems that the responses of the Iranian audiences (especially of those educated in the West and whose views of Iran, as we shall see later, partially coincided with those of Westerners) to these films were composed of a mixture of shame for their failure to modernize, and exasperation at being incorrectly or insufficiently represented
Gratification · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Shame · Sociology · Subject (documents · Cinema and Media Studies · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Law · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Social Psychology
Popular Entertainment, Media and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Iran
Iranian Relations With Great Britain and British India, 1798–1921
Iranian Foreign Policy, 1921–1979
Iranian Relations With Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1921
The Pahlavī Autocracy
Religious Forces in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Iran
Iran Under the Later Qājārs, 1848–1922
The Cambridge History of Iran
Printing, the Press and Literature in Modern Iran
Kāvosh‐e raṣad khāneh‐ye Marāgheh va negāhī be pīshīneh‐ye setāreh shenāsī dar Irān , [The Excavation of the Maragheh Observatory and a Look at the History of Astronomy in Iran], Parviz Varjavand, Tehran
If you're going to educate 'em, you've got to entertain 'em too”
Cinema in Iran, 1900–1979 , Mohammad Ali Issari, New York
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2011 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |