Iranian Cinema in a Global Context - Policy, Politics, and Form

List of contents

1. Introduction Blake Atwood and Peter Decherney Part I: Essays 2. Iranian Film Policy in a Global Context Agnès Devictor 3. Re/Form: New Forms in Cinema and Media in Post-Khatami Iran Blake Atwood 4. From Theatre to Cinema and Vice-Versa: Socio-political and Economic Reasons for Professional Circulation Liliane Anjo 5. The Iranian Shylock: Jewish Representation in Iranian Film Orly Rahimiyan 6. A Bad State: Rakshan Bani-Etemad’s Mainline Roxanne Varzi 7. Through the Looking Glass: Reflexive Cinema and Society in Post-Revolution Iran Norma Claire Moruzzi 8. The Rise of "Youth Pop" Films in Contemporary Iran Negar Razavi 9. Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association and the Fight for the House of Cinema Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri Part II: Short Takes 10. Notes on the Reception of Iranian Films in Brazil Ferdinando Martins and Daniel Marcolino Claudino de Sousa 11. Pomegranates and Cinema: Some Observations on a Decade or so of Selecting and Screening Iranian Films Anne Demy-Geroe 12. Who Are They?: Introducing American Students to Iran through Mohammad Shirvani’s Short Film, The Candidate John Limbert 13. The Haunting Obituary of a Dying Patriarch: A Separation Farzaneh Milani 14. The Contested Social Spaces of Film Practices since 2009 in Iran Mazyar Lotfalian 15. Underground Cinema in Iran Parviz Jahed 16. Censorship in Iranian Cinema ASL19

Summary

This volume presents a new definition of the field of Iranian film studies, one that engages global media flows, transmedia interaction, and a heterogeneous Iranian national cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Atwood Decherney
• Assisted by: Blake Atwood (Editor), Peter Decherney (Editor), Decherney Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2014
• EAN: 9781138779341
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77934-1
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Iran, History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Films, cinema, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General