Draft:Alireza Kaveh
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Alireza Kaveh (علیرضا کاوه) is an Iranian film theorist, author, and critic, best known for his tone-based framework in genre studies and his book Film Genre: Tone and Ideology (Rozanehkar, 2018). His theoretical model, the Cinematic Taxonomy, proposes a five-part classification of film study: medium, style, genre, format, and tradition.
Kaveh integrates Iranian intellectual traditions with modern film theory, positioning non-Western perspectives as a key part of global cinematic discourse. His writings explore the relation between tone, ideology, and spectatorship, bridging aesthetics, culture, and cinematic form.
Viewership Theory
[edit]Kaveh’s Viewership Theory redefines cinematic spectatorship through a historical and perceptual lens, tracing its origins to ancient image-based rituals such as Zoroastrian fire temples and Mithraic sanctuaries. It connects Persian poetic imagery, Khayyam’s metaphors, and shadow-play traditions (as analyzed by Bahram Beyzai) to the emergence of proto-cinematic perception. This framework identifies light, fire, and collective viewing as the primal foundations of cinema, distinguishing it from Euro-American theories of spectatorship.
Notability
[edit]Alireza Kaveh’s theories have been discussed across Iranian scholarly and media platforms including ژانری بی‌مرز – IBNA, بولتن‌نیوز, and Sima TV’s Cinema Program. His frameworks — including the Cinematic Taxonomy and Viewership Theory — have been mentioned in English Wikipedia articles such as Film Genre, Genre, and Reception Theory.
Verified Commons Presence
[edit]Two Wikimedia-hosted files associated with Kaveh are used in active Wikipedia articles:
- File:Alireza Kaveh author.jpg – in Cinema of Iran and this draft.
- File:Prehistoric Firelight Cinema – The Birth of Cinematic Viewership.png – in Reception Theory.
Public Profiles
[edit]References
[edit]Academic and International Sources
[edit]- Internet Archive – Film Genre: Tone and Ideology
- Academia.edu – Alternative Theories of Film Genre
- Academia.edu – Iranian Film Theory
- Google Scholar profile for Alireza Kaveh
- ORCID record: 0009-0008-9211-4422
- FilmTextonomy – Alireza Kaveh and the Film Noir Theory
- FilmTextonomy – Alireza Kaveh and the Genre Theory
- Viewership and the Birth of Cinema – Substack essay, 2024
Persian and Media Coverage
[edit]- انتشار کتاب «چنین سیاه آینه‌ای» دربارهٔ سینمای سیاه – ایسنا
- بهرام بیضایی و «وقتی همه خوابیم» از نگاه علیرضا کاوه – ایسنا
- بررسی ژانرهای سینمایی در یک کتاب – ایسنا
- ۲۸ ژانر سینمایی معرفی شدند – ایسنا
- ژانری بی‌مرز – خبرگزاری کتاب ایران (IBNA)
- علیرضا کاوه با «گونه سینمایی» به کتابفروشی‌ها آمد – خبرگزاری کتاب ایران (IBNA)
- هفت گونه سینما – IBNA
- نقد یک واکنش به اثر هنری نیست – IBNA
- گفت‌وگو با علیرضا کاوه در خبرگزاری برنا: سینمای ایران درگیر سندروم‌های فرمی و محتوایی است
- نقد ساسان گلفر بر کتاب «گونه سینمایی: لحن و نظام ارزشی» (منتشرشده در رسانه‌های تخصصی سینما)
- نقد محمد جعفری در ماهنامهٔ فیلم (نسخهٔ چاپی، منتشرنشده آنلاین)
- نقد ایران اینترنشنال دربارهٔ نظریهٔ ژانر و نگاه لحن‌محور
- گفت‌وگو در برنامهٔ تلویزیونی «سینما» از شبکهٔ سیما
- یادداشت تحلیلی در مجلهٔ «سینماچشم»
- مرور کتاب در ماهنامهٔ «فیلم و نقد سینما»
- مقاله در روزنامهٔ «فرهیختگان» دربارهٔ کتاب «چنین سیاه آینه‌ای»
Verified Wikimedia Presence
[edit]- File:Alireza Kaveh author.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
- File:Prehistoric Firelight Cinema – The Birth of Cinematic Viewership.png
- Appears in: Cinema of Iran, Film Genre, Genre, and Reception Theory articles on Wikipedia.
