Conflict and Development in Iranian Film -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film -- The Sound of Frogs at Night: Kiarostami's Philosophy of Cinema -- Sexuality and Cultural Change: The Presentation of Sex and Gender in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema -- Kiarostami's Cinematic Poetry in Where is the Friend's Home? and The Wind will Carry Us -- Which Half is Hidden? The Public or the Private: An Analysis of Milani's The Hidden Half -- Abbas Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal -- Contemporary Liminal Encounters: Moving Beyond Traditional Plots in Majidi's Bârân -- Virtuous Heroines: A Mythical Reading of Female Protagonists in Contemporary Iranian Television Serials -- Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman -- Index.