New Iranian Cinema : Politics, Representation and Identity.
Title:
New Iranian Cinema : Politics, Representation and Identity.
Author:
Tapper, Richard.
ISBN:
9780857715104
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- A Note on Transliteration and Style -- Introduction- Richard Tapper -- Islamizing Film Culture in Iran: A Post-Khatami Update- Hamid Naficy -- Classic Tools, Original Goals: Cinema and Public Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979-97)- Agnès Devictor -- The Crisis in the Iranian Film Industry and the Role of Government- Hossein Ghazian -- Perspectives on Recent (International Acclaim for) Iranian Cinema- Azadeh Farahmand -- Politics and Cinema in Post-revolutionary Iran: An Uneasy Relationship- Ali Reza Haghighi -- Dead Certainties: The Early Makhmalbaf- Hamid Dabashi -- A Ghost in the Machine: The Cinema of the Iranian Sacred Defence- Roxanne Varzi -- Negotiating the Politics of Gender in Iran: An Ethnography of a Documentary- Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Location (Physical Space) and Cultural Identity in Iranian Films- Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa -- Chaste Dolls and Unchaste Dolls: Women in Iranian Cinema since 1979- Shahla Lahiji -- Children in Contemporary Iranian Cinema: When we were Children- Hamid Reza Sadr -- Marking Gender and Difference in the Myth of the Nation: A Post-revolutionary Iranian Film- Nasrin Rahimieh -- Afterword- Laura Mulvey -- Filmography -- Index of Films -- General Index.
Abstract:
Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf have been joined by newcomers like Samira Makhmalbaf, Majid Majidi, Ja'far Panahi and Bahman Qobadi, and their films are screened to increasing acclaim in international festivals. This international stature both fascinates Western observers and appears paradoxical in line with perceptions of Iran as anti-modern. The largely Iranian contributors to this welcome book look in depth at how Iranian cinema became a true 'world cinema'. From a range of perspectives, they explore cinema's development in post Revolution Iran and its place in Iranian culture.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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