Conflict and Development in Iranian Film
ISBN: 9789400601031
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Leiden University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Motion pictures;

The contributors to this timely volume explore the philosophical underpinnings and cinematic techniques characteristic of contemporary Iranian film. Collectively, they demonstrate how the pervasive themes of Iranian cinema--such as martyrdom and war, traditional gender roles and their recent subversion, as well as broader social policy issues--have been addressed and how various directors, including the acclaimed Abbas Kiarostami, have approached them using a variety of techniques. Capturing the unique poetic and mystical dimensions of Iranian cinema, these essays consider the effects of the Islamic Revolution on cinema's ethical and aesthetic aspects.

A. Seyed-Gohrab is Associate Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at Leiden University. Kamran Talattof , professor of Persian and Iranian studies at the University of Arizona, is cotranslator of Touba and the Meaning of Night , a controversial novel banned by the mullahs on publication.

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