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Blake Atwood
American University of Beirut
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Media
Persian
Political Economy
Technology
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
All Middle East
Lebanon
Specialties
Informal Media; Creative Labor; Media History
Languages
Persian (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2011 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas at Austin
MA | 2008 | Persian Studies | University of Texas at Austin
BA | 2006 | Persian | University of Virginia
Abstracts
Cinematic Cracks: Nawbat-e ‘Asheqi and the Rise of Reform in Iran Re/Form: New Forms in Cinema and Media in Post-Khatami Iran "I Have the Technology": Life, Narrative, and Super-8 Technology in 'West Beirut ' What Will the Neighbors Think?: Iran's Underground Video Clubs, 1982-1993 Your ID, Please: Towards a History of Documents in Lebanon That Film from Tehran: A History of Co-Production between Iran and Lebanon