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03638aam a2200445 i 4500 001 58DE984CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 201124t20212021maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020044347 020 $a 0262542846 020 $a 9780262542845 035 $a (OCoLC)1226076451 040 $a DGU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d MNN $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ir--- 050 00 $a PN1992.934.I7 $b A88 2021 082 00 $a 384.55/80955 $2 23 100 1 $a Atwood, Blake Robert, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Underground : $b the secret life of videocassettes in Iran / $c Blake Atwood. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 252 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Infrastructures series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. 505 0 $a Banned : Video Goes Underground -- Underground Network : Collectivity and the Video Infrastructure -- Video Dealers : The Work of Informal Media Distribution -- Home Video : Pleasure, Peril, and Private Space -- Video Matters : Remembering the Underground 520 $a "First book length study of home video in Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and the informal distribution infrastructure that developed in reaction to the ban on all video technology"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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 participants in the underground. He argues that videocassettes helped to institutionalize the broader underground within the Islamic Republic. As Atwood shows, the videocassette underground reveals a great deal about how people construct vibrant cultures beneath repressive institutions. It was not just that Iranians gained access to banned movies, but rather that they established routes, acquired technical knowledge, broke the law, and created rituals by passing and trading plastic videocassettes. As material objects, the videocassettes were a means of negotiating the power of the state and the agency of its citizens. By the time the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance lifted the ban in 1994, millions of videocassettes were circulating efficiently and widely throughout the country. The very presence of a video underground signaled the failure of state policy to regulate media. Embedded in the informal infrastructure--even in the videocassettes themselves--was the triumph of everyday people over the state." -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Videocassettes $z Iran $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Video recordings $z Iran $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Mass media and culture $z Iran $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Mass media and culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011339 650 7 $a Video recordings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01166472 650 7 $a Videocassettes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01166579 651 7 $a Iran. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204889 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Infrastructures series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011653.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=58DE984CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search