Underground
The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran
$79.84
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In Underground, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts, cinephiles, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens forged an illegal but complex underground system for video distribution. Atwood draws on archival sources including trade publications, newspapers, memoirs, films, and laws, but at the heart of the book lies a corpus of oral history interviews conducted with particip…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262542845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262542846 |
| Author: | Blake Atwood |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
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Critics Review
“Underground by Blake Atwood offers a history of the elusive ultimate chapter in the cultural life of the portable magnetic record in Iran: the informal trade in videocassettes that shaped the experience of moving-image media for a generation. The work is truly innovative in the way it reveals a practice that is not easy to track.”
—Technology and Culture
About The Author
Blake Atwood
Blake Atwood is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut and the author of Reform Cinema in Iran- Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic.
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