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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 9780262542845

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Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran. Blake Atwood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021). 252 pp. ISBN 9780262542845

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

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Iranian Studies , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , April 2024 , pp. 353 - 355
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1 Dana Stevens, “The Cab Ride as Artistic Rebellion,” Slate, October 2, 2015, https://slate.com/culture/2015/10/jafar-panahis-film-taxi-reviewed.html.

2 Atwood underscores that the underground had a presence prior to videocassettes, but the technology played a role in shaping a more cohesive underground for those engaging in movie distribution (11).

3 Philip, Kavita, “Keep on Copyin’ in the Free World? Genealogies of the Postcolonial Pirate Figure,” in Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South, ed. Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja, 149–178 (Bloomsbury, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.