Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran

List of Plates
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1 STREETS
Capturing the non-visibility of everyday presence
Urban emptiness
Absent presence
An orientation towards the everyday

2 CARS
Inhabiting the everyday, enacting an embodied cinema of mobility
On the move: Abbas Kiarostami's wandering cars and extended
presence
Dwelling in mobility
Mobilizing the look
An embodied cinema of everyday interaction
Conclusion

3 ROOFTOPS
The invisibility and ambiguity of leftover space
Rooftops and the everyday city
Rooftops of Iran: Memoirs and popular culture
On leftover space
Urban rooftops in Iran: The ambivalence of leftover space
Rooftop protests: The everyday practice of shouting from rooftops
Conclusion

4 SHOPPING CENTRES
The ambivalence of the scopic regime of the stroll
Ambiguities of the shopping centre
The scopic regimes of shopping
Going for a walk in the shopping centre
Conclusion

5 SPORTS
The unrelenting visibility of wayward bodies
Sports and everyday life in Iran: A short history
Geographies and visualities of sport
The hypervisibility of television sports
The spectral community of television sports spectators
Conclusion

Conclusion

Works Cited
Index

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• Estudos cultirais
• Estudos de comunicação
• Estudos islâmicos
• Sociologia: desporto e lazer