Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

Section 1: Theory; 1.1 Recit de l'Exil Occidental; 1.2 East Is Not East; 1.3 Trauma, Memory, and History; Section 2: Visual Arts; 2.1 Artists without Borders: On Contemporary Iranian Art; 2.2 Persian Blues; 2.3 It Was in China, Late One Moonless Night; 2.4 The Gun and the Gaze: Shirin Neshat's Photography; 2.5 Bordercrossings: Shirin Neshat's Body of Evidence; 2.6 Shirin Neshat: Transcending the Boundaries of an Imaginative Geography; 2.7 Capturing the Illusion of Reality: Mapping the Visual Subconscious of a People in the Photography of Bahman Jalali; 2.8 Shoja Azari: Making the Homely Unhomely; 2.9 Ardeshir Mohassess, Etcetera; 2.10 Nicky Nodjoumi, Etcetera; Section 3: Cinema; 3.1 Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes: Who Watches the Watchers?; 3.2 The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Time of Terror; 3.3 Women without Headaches; 3.4 Warriors of Faith; 3.5 The Rostamaneh Complex and Sohrab Syndrome; 3.6 Amir Naderi's New York; 3.7 The '300' Stroke; 3.8 Tarek Al-Ghoussein Does Not Exist; 3.9 A Deadly Cinematic Subconscious; 3.10 In the Shadow of Two Monuments; Index.