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Kaveh Askari is professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is the author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit (2022), which was awarded the 2023 Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award and was longlisted for the 2023 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award. Before this, he authored Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood (2019). He has collaborated with curators and archives to preserve several feature films made in Iran in the 1950s and 1960s.
