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Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation o

Features of Reza Shah’s cultural politics Intellectuals and technocrats: key figures in Iran’s cultural modernization The shah: state politics and authoritarian modernization Life under Reza Shah: new bourgeois culture and other forms of practiced modernity Notes I Intellectuals and technocrats. Key figures in Iran’s cultural modernization Modernization in literary history The biographical background A novel concept: stylistics and evolution combined Literary history in long-term perspective Clear but not pure: the ideal use of language History: the Sho‘ubiyeh movement Conclusion Notes Policy or puzzle? The foundation of the University of Tehran between ideal conception and pragmatic realization Giving birth to the University of Tehran: espousing ideas, one baby with many fathers, a lengthy pregnancy, and a premature child Ideas and concepts The Teachers College as the nucleus of the University of Tehran: the contribution of ‘Isa Sadiq The law: the politician ‘Ali Asghar Hekmat makes an appearance Hekmat becomes minister of education Hekmat and Sadiq The committee The Majles debates The “Golden Label”: on Reza Shah’s motivation and role Nationalization of education Secularization of the educational system Highest authority The inauguration Western ways of thinking meet eastern ways of acting: transfer of knowledge versus realization by pragmatism Conclusion Notes Mir Mehdi Varzandeh and the introduction of modern physical education in Iran1 Biographical sketch Varzandeh and the legacy of traditional physical education Modern physical education in Iran before Varzandeh World War I and its aftermath in Iran Degeneration, moral regeneration, and Swedish gymnastics Enter Mir Mehdi Varzandeh Conclusion Notes Modernization of Iranian music during the reign of Reza Shah Introduction Iranian music during the Qajar period The modern sociopolitical structure of Iranian music during the Reza Shah period Non-governmental modernization Governmental modernization Review of the degree of acceptance of various standpoints on the modernization of music in Iranian society Conclusion Notes The king’s white walls. Modernism and bourgeois architecture Tabula rasa The timelessness of historicism The timeliness of the avant-garde The white mausoleum Notes II The Shah State politics and authoritarian modernization Archaeology and the Iranian National Museum A quick glance at the history of archaeology and the archaeological institutions in Iran before the rise of Reza Shah Archaeology and the French monopoly The Antiquities Service (Edareh-ye ‘Atiqat)The Archaeological Museum Archaeology and archaeological institutions in Iran under Reza Shah The abolition of the monopoly and its consequences Andre Godard at the head of Persian Antiquities and his competitors The Creation of the Iran Bastan Museum Conclusion Notes Depicting power. Reza Shah’s rule, cabinet politics and the commemorative stamp set of 1935 Stamps in Qajar Iran Stamps and propaganda under the rule of Reza Shah The stamp set of 1935 The men behind the stamps Later stamps of the Pahlavi period - The 1935 set as an iconographic trendsetter Conclusion Notes Press censorship in the Reza Shah era, 1925-411 The second period: Censorship in the post-Teymurtash era The third period: The establishment of the Office of Guidance in Writing Conclusion Archival Sources Notes III Life under Reza Shah. New bourgeois culture and other forms of practiced modernity Drama and operetta at the Red Lion and Sun. Theatre in Tabriz 1927-41 Iranian theatre in the Pahlavi period and the nativist discourse on Iranian drama Theatre in Tabriz and the building of the Red Lion and Sun Cultural politics and theatre: Tabriz and the Nezam-nameh of 1306/1928 Troupes and ensembles What was on stage? Literature, morality and history The audience: Who could afford to go to the theatre?Cultural politics and theatre: Language on stage Conclusion: Theatre as part of twentieth-century Iranian entertainment culture Notes “Newly hatched chickens”. Bozorg ‘Alavi on the young literary scene of the 1930s Roja Dehdarian Formation of the literary circle Vis-a-vis the literary establishment Literature, social criticism and the Pahlavi state The niche for innovation Engagement in the “national project”Conclusion Notes Giving birth to a new generation. Midwifery in the public health system of the Reza Shah era Iranian socio-political conditions and their impacts on the evolution of medicine Women’s affairs and the cultural policies of Pahlavi I Women’s health conditions and the establishment of the First Women’s Hospital during the rule of Pahlavi I Conclusion Notes Engineering a modern society? Adoptions of new technologies in early Pahlavi Iran Technology and the state The modernist approach to technology The “common” Iranians and technology - three case studies Transportation Cinema The telephone Conclusion Notes Religious aspects in communication processes in early Pahlavi Iran Theoretical basis The involvement of Shi‘i clerics and Sufi orders in policy and their modes of communication The role of public religious and popular performances Religious rhetoric, the satirical communication mode and the press Religious discourse in Persian literature Conclusion Notes

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Features of Reza Shah’s cultural politics
Interpreting culture in its broadest sense, this book brings together contributions from different disciplines such as literary history, social history, ethnomusi- cology, art history, and Middle Eastern politics. In this way, it combines the cultural history of Iran’s modernity with the politics of...
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Life under Reza Shah: new bourgeois culture and other forms of practiced modernity
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Life under Reza Shah. New bourgeois culture and other forms of practiced modernity
This page intentionally left blank Drama and operetta at the Red Lion and Sun. Theatre in Tabriz 1927-41 Christoph Werner In September 1927, more precisely on Saturday night, 18 Shahrivar 1306, the new and splendid theatre hall of Tabriz, the Red Lion and Sun, was inaugurated in the presence of...
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Depicting power. Reza Shah’s rule, cabinet politics and the commemorative stamp set of 1935
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Cultural politics and theatre: Tabriz and the Nezam-nameh of 1306/1928
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Cultural politics and theatre: Language on stage
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