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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