Gender and Dance in Modern Iran

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Screening the dancing practices of contemporary social life -- Screening "staged" dancing bodies and their intradiegetic audience -- The cabaret dancer on the cinematic screen -- The transformation of the onscreen cabaret dancer -- The onscreen raqqas as a character -- Real "reel" dancers, off-screen power and onscreen roles -- The dancing body, a signifier of degeneration in commercial cinema -- Raqqas: a sensual body or a popular character? -- Notes -- 6. The dancing body in the anti-obscenity discourse of the Islamic press in pre-revolutionary Iran