The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied. This book brings together a diverse range of scholars to explore contemporary Iranian cinema in its local and international contexts from a range of perspectives including aesthetic, socio-political comparative approaches. Its chapters analyse the work of well-known filmmakers on the international film circuit such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohammad Reza Aslani and Jaffar Panahi, as well as internationally lesser-known domestic films such as those of Kamal Tabrizi and the 'Sacred Defence' films of the Iran-Iraq war. The book further widens its scope with chapters which also examine the material practices of the Iranian film industry itself, including chapters on the process by which Iranian films become 'accessible' to international audience. Finally, it considers, too, representations of Iranians in foreign cinemas, and how these have in turn affected Iranian films.
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This is a collection of valuable scholarly works that not only offer fresh perspectives on familiar subjects but also open up new spaces in the study of lesser-known and understudied aspects of Iranian cinema. * Dr Kaveh Abbasian, University of Kent, UK *
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An international, interdisciplinary range of scholars examine Iranian cinema in its international, domestic, aesthetic and socio-political contexts.
List of Contributors
Introduction
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari and Mohammad Rahmati
Part One: Iranian Cinema A Look from Within
1 Eastern Caressing Eyes: Persian-Islamic Arts, Haptic Moments and
Kiarostamis Cinema
Milad Sotoudeh, Sajad Sotoudeh and Alireza Sayyad
2 A Semiological Analysis of MaleFemale Relationships in
Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Asal Bagheri
3 Off-Screen Voice and Conditions of Meaning in The Wind Will Carry
Us (1999) by Abbas Kiarostami
Hemen Heidari
4 The Production of War Films During the IranIraq War (198088) in
Iran: A Singular Case in the History of Cinema
Agnès Devictor
5 Self-Reflexivity in Iranian New Wave Cinema: The Cases of
Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf and Panahi
Pardis Minuchehr
6 Coming of Age: Watching the Iranian Youth Grow Up on the Screen
Hossein Khosrowjah
7 Representation of Social Issues in Iranian Cinema
Azam Ravadrad
Part Two: Iranian Cinema and Its Global Reach
8 The Global Roads of Kiarostami
Jean-Michel Frodon
9 FranceIran: Fifty Years of Mutual Influence and Admiration
Laurent Garreau
10 Perspectives of Iranian Films in German Cinema
Stefan Piasecki
11 Presentation of Italian Films in Iran, and Their Impact on Iranian
Cinema: A Historical Overview
Mohammad Foad Abachi
12 Persia on Celluloid: Depicting the Lure and Decadence of Iran
in European Films, 1900s1930
Golbarg Rekabtalaei
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is Associate Professor of linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran. He is the author of Tense in Persian (2002), and a co-author of Faarsi Biyaamuzim (2001) and Persian for Dummies (2017). He is also the co-editor of Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages (2019).
Mohammad Rahmati holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Tehran in 2018. He has published articles in the Sociological Review (University of Tehran) and the Quarterly Journal of Social Sciences (Allameh Tabatabaei University), and has taught at a number of Iranian universities.
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