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Managing the Multinational Subsidiary

Response to Environmental Changes and the Host Nation R&D Policies

By: Hamid Etemad,Louise Séguin Dulude

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Managing the Multinational Subsidiary

Response to Environmental Changes and the Host Nation R&D Policies

By: Hamid Etemad,Louise Séguin Dulude

This book, first published in 1986, is concerned with the changing world environment for multinational business and the relationships between multinational parent companies and their subsidiaries which will be necessary to meet the challenges that are being faced. The study argues that key changes to the environment are: the revolution in manufacturing which has permitted cheap production in one location of complicated products for a world market; ‘world product mandating’, whereby all a company’s country subsidiaries produce different product lines for the world market; pressure and incentives from host governments for technology transfer in their favour and for research and development facilities within their territory; the growth of highly efficient international trading and distribution intermediaries; and the complications of increased ‘barter’ trade arising from international debt problems and currency shortages. All this means that the management of multinational subsidiaries has to change. This book reviews the challenges and shows a way forward.

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Routledge

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1351189182

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9781351189187

Corpus Anarchicum

Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Corpus Anarchicum

Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body

By: Hamid Dabashi

This book is a meditation on and an attempt to understand suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge: the decade between 2001 and 2011, from the suicidal mission of Muhammad Atta and his band in the United States to the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010 in Tunisia. After the former a devastating military strike and occupation of two Muslim countries commenced, and after the latter a massive transnational democratic uprising ensued. Suicidal violence is neither specific to Islam nor peculiar to our time. It has been manifested in practically all cultures and religions and throughout human history. But the suicidal violence we witness today is of an entirely different disposition because the bodies (both of the assailant and of the assailed) on which it is perpetrated are no longer the human body of our Enlightenment assumption. What we are witnessing is in fact the contour of a posthuman body. The posthuman body, as Dabashi here proposes, is the body of a contingent and contextual being, and as such an object of disposable knowledge; while the human body that it has superseded was corporeally integral, autonomous, rational, indispensable, and above all the site of a knowing subject.

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Springer

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1137264128

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9781137264121

Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?

Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?

Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy

By: Hamid Dabashi

When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema-and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated scholar Hamid Dabashi offers a new way of looking at Kiarostami's art world, one that questions the very idea of film philosophy. Dabashi's authoritative account of the philosophical resonances of Kiarostami's oeuvre offers an iconoclastic critique of the field's Eurocentrism and, in vivid prose, makes the case for a new method of appreciating the work of this essential figure. The result is a provocative perspective on the totality of Kiarostami's legacy that, with deep roots in Iranian aesthetic and Persian poetic and philosophical traditions, overcomes film's provincial preoccupation with its Western heritage and charts a new path forward for film philosophy."--

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369

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Univ of California Press

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0520397185

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9780520397187

Iranian Cinema

A Political History

By: Hamid Reza Sadr

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Iranian Cinema

A Political History

By: Hamid Reza Sadr

Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth century, has been perceived in the main as lacking in artistic merit and, crucially, as apolitical in content. This highly readable history of Iran as revealed through the full breadth of its cinema re-reads the films themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, economic and social situations. Sadr argues that embedded within even the seemingly least noteworthy of mainstream Iranian films, we find themes and characterisations which reveal the political contexts of their time and which express the ideological underpinnings of a society. Beginning with the introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy, the book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of all key films. "Iranian Cinema" looks at recurring themes and tropes, such as the rural versus the 'corrupt' city and, recently, the preponderance of images of childhood, and asks what these have revealed about Iranian society. The author brings the story up to date explaining Iranian filmmaking after the events of September 11, from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's astonishing Kandahar to Saddiq Barmak's angry work Osama, to explore this most recent and breathtaking revival in Iranian cinema.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857713701

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9780857713704

Close Up

Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future

By: Hamid Dabashi

Abbas Kiarostami planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for his film A Taste of Cherry in 1997. In this book Hamid Dabashi examines the growing reputation of Iranian cinema from its origins in the films of Kimiyai and Mehrjui, through the work of established directors such as Kiarostami, Beyzai and Bani-Etemad, to young filmmakers like Samira Makhmalbaf and Bahman Qobadi, who triumphed at the Cannes 2000 festival. Dabashi combines exclusive interviews with directors, detailed and insightful commentary, critical cultural context, an extensive filmography, and generous illustration to provide an indispensable guide to a globally celebrated but little-studied cinematic genre. Book jacket.

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328

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1859846262

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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

By: Hamid Naficy

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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

By: Hamid Naficy

In the fourth and final volume of A History of Iranian Cinema, Hamid Naficy looks at the extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film and other visual media since the Islamic Revolution.

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Duke University Press

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0822348780

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9780822348788

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

By: Hamid Naficy

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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

By: Hamid Naficy

Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.

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560

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Duke University Press

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0822347741

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9780822347743

An Iranian Childhood

Rethinking History and Memory

By: Hamid Dabashi

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An Iranian Childhood

Rethinking History and Memory

By: Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi was born and raised in southern Iran in the 1950s and 1960s. During this time, his homeland was changed beyond recognition, from the 1953 coup d'état to the 1963 political protests and the beginning of the Marxist rebellions against the Shah in 1971. In this vibrant, unique and personal study, Dabashi recounts his experience of this defining period in modern Iranian history, deftly blending the personal with the political, the ordinary with the extraordinary. Lyrically written, he combines vivid childhood memories with careful reflection to explore the intersection of history and memory. The book draws upon a rich tapestry of themes and sources, including art, literature, and folklore. In doing so, Dabashi asserts the power and place of the knowing postcolonial subject. Redrawing the limits of modern literary historiography, he asks what it means to be a Muslim and an Iranian, and, indeed, what it is that forms the humanity of a person.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009080784

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9781009080781

The World is My Home

A Hamid Dabashi Reader

By: Hamid Dabashi

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The World is My Home

A Hamid Dabashi Reader

By: Hamid Dabashi

As recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent commentator on these affairs, explaining, interpreting, and providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his most influential and insightful writings. As one of the foremost contemporary public intellectuals and scholars of our time, Dabashi's interests and writings span subjects ranging from Islamic philosophy and political ideology to Iranian art and Persian literature, from Sufism and Orientalism to Iranian and world cinema and contemporary Arab and Muslim visual arts; and from postcolonial theory and globalization to imperialism and public affairs. There is a direct connection between his theoretical innovations and the angle of his public interventions on the urgent global issues of the day. This book brings together some of his most important writings, especially those that offer new ways of understanding Islam, Iran, Islamist ideology, global art, and the condition of global modernity. The book shows the underlying conceptual themes that unify Dabashi's wide-ranging and brilliantly insightful corpus. Dabashi combines deep knowledge of the subject matter about which he writes, and highly refined sociological, hermeneutical, and cultural interpretive skills, moving far beyond the limiting, distorted, and intellectually stifling character of reigning absolutist conventions. He places existing authoritative frameworks under close scrutiny in order to produce novel and penetrating insights. These essays reflect historical and geographical worlds that are best viewed when Hamid Dabashi's work is read as a whole, which this one- volume work makes possible for the first time.

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334

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Transaction Publishers

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1412843170

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9781412843171

Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema

By: Hamid Dabashi

An academically acclaimed and globally celebrated cultural critic, Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books and articles on Iran, Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art, among them Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (editor), Iran: A People Interrupted, and Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation. He lives with his family in New York City.

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Mage Publishers

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1949445550

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9781949445558

Iran, the Green Movement and the USA

The Fox and the Paradox

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Iran, the Green Movement and the USA

The Fox and the Paradox

By: Hamid Dabashi

Iran, the Green Movement and the USA presents the paradox that the USA faces in dealing with Iran over its nuclear armament: negotiate, and legitimize Ahmadinejad’s otherwise troubled presidency; resort to sanctions or military strikes, and altogether destroy the budding civil rights campaign of the Green Movement. Either way, as leading Iranian scholar Hamid Dabashi argues, the Islamic Republic will become even stronger. Featuring a short history of how the USA and Iran came to be in this confrontation, this elegantly written book provides the reader with a dynamic picture of the regional geopolitics and a purposeful guide to how to understand and deal with it.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848138180

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9781848138186

Managing the Multinational Subsidiary

Response to Environmental Changes and the Host Nation R&D Policies

By: Hamid Etemad,Louise Séguin Dulude

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Managing the Multinational Subsidiary

Response to Environmental Changes and the Host Nation R&D Policies

By: Hamid Etemad,Louise Séguin Dulude

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Routledge

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1351189182

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Close Up

Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future

By: Hamid Dabashi

Arguing that Iranian cinema has emerged as "the staple of cultural currency that defies the logic of nativism and challenges the problems of globalization," Dabashi (Iranian studies, Columbia U.) concentrates on the contributions on four key filmmakers, presenting critical readings of their work and interviews with a couple of his subjects. An introductory chapter seeks to place Iranian cinema in the context of modernity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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1859843328

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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

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An Iranian Childhood

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The World is My Home

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Iran, the Green Movement and the USA

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