The Little Devil Comes Home: Video, the State, and Amateur Cinema in Iran

Atwood, Blake

doi:10.2979/filmhistory.30.1.07

Film History

2018

DOI: 10.2979/filmhistory.30.1.07

|View full text |Cite

The Little Devil Comes Home: Video, the State, and Amateur Cinema in Iran

Blake Atwood¹

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2021

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

References 17 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem

Baghoolizadeh¹

2021

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article looks to two songs, “Layla Said” and “Mammad, You Weren't There to See,” to examine the politics of representation, race, religion, and nationalism in late twentieth-century Iran. “Layla Said,” a religious eulogy sung by Jahanbakhsh Kurdizadeh, would serve as inspiration for the most popular song of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) in terms of melody, rhythm, and lyrics. Kurdizadeh, a visibly Black Iranian, is not popularly remembered as the source of the eulogy, an omission that compounds many of the politics of Black representation in Iran. Through an investigation of film, aural recordings, photographs, and more, this article follows the many mutations of the eulogy-turned-anthem to identify the various ways ethnography and documentary works frame blackness in Iran. Kurdizadeh's life and marginalized legacy highlights the tacit erasure of blackness on the national stage in Iran.

show abstract

From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem

Baghoolizadeh¹

2021

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

hi@scite.ai

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

The Little Devil Comes Home: Video, the State, and Amateur Cinema in Iran

Cited by 1 publication

References 17 publications

From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem

From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About