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Author : Matthias Wittmann,Ute Holl
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474479766
Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.
Author : Maryam Ghorbankarimi
Publisher : EUP
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474477623
This book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view.
Author : Shiva Rahbaran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857728722
The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containing twelve first-hand interviews with the most renowned film-makers living and working in contemporary Iran, this book provides insights into film-making within a society often at odds with its rulers. Reflecting upon the 1979 revolution and its influence on their work, as well as the effect of their films on Iranian audiences, film-makers such as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi highlight the key issues surrounding the reception of Iranian cinema in the West and also its role in the development of Iran's global image. Through these conversations Shiva Rahbaran reveals that the seeds of the New Iranian Cinema were sown long before the revolution, and that Iranian film-makers gave rise to a cinema which became a global phenomenon despite censorship, sanctions and political isolation.
Author : Pedram Partovi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315385600
Critics and academics have generally dismissed the commercial productions of the late Pahlavi era, best known for their songs and melodramatic plots, as shallow, derivative ‘entertainment’. Instead, they have concentrated on the more recent internationally acclaimed art films, claiming that these constitute Iranian ‘national' cinema, despite few Iranians having seen them. Film discourse, and even fan talk, have long attempted to marginalize the mainstream releases of the 1960s and 1970s with the moniker filmfarsi, ironically asserting that such popular favorites were culturally inauthentic. This book challenges the idea that filmfarsi is detached from the past and present of Iranians. Far from being escapist Hollywood fare merely translated into Persian, it claims that the better films of this supposed genre must be taken as both a subject of, and source for, modern Iranian history. It argues that they have an appeal that relies on their ability to rearticulate traditional courtly and religious ideas and forms to problematize in unexpectedly complex and sophisticated ways the modernist agenda that secular nationalist elites wished to impose on their viewers. Taken seriously, these films raise questions about standard treatments of Iran's modern history. By writing popular films into Iranian history, this book advocates both a fresh approach to the study of Iranian cinema, as well as a rethinking of the modernity/tradition binary that has organized the historiography of the recent past. It will appeal to those interested in Iranian cinema, Iranian history and culture, and, more broadly, readers dissatisfied with a dichotomous approach to modernity.
Author : Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135283100
Iran has undergone considerable social and political upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Focusing on the practices of regulation, production and reception of films in Iran, this book explores the politics of Iranian cinema in its post-revolutionary context.
Author : Hamid Naficy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822348788
In the fourth and final volume of A History of Iranian Cinema, Hamid Naficy looks at the extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film and other visual media since the Islamic Revolution.
Author : Sarah Gensburger,Jenny Wüstenberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805391081
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Western world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance. Drawing on research from experts on memory dynamics across various disciplines, this extensive collection seeks to make sense of the current state of de-commemoration as it transforms contemporary societies around the world.
Author : Hamid Reza Sadr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857713704
Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth century, has been perceived in the main as lacking in artistic merit and, crucially, as apolitical in content. This highly readable history of Iran as revealed through the full breadth of its cinema re-reads the films themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, economic and social situations. Sadr argues that embedded within even the seemingly least noteworthy of mainstream Iranian films, we find themes and characterisations which reveal the political contexts of their time and which express the ideological underpinnings of a society. Beginning with the introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy, the book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of all key films. "Iranian Cinema" looks at recurring themes and tropes, such as the rural versus the 'corrupt' city and, recently, the preponderance of images of childhood, and asks what these have revealed about Iranian society. The author brings the story up to date explaining Iranian filmmaking after the events of September 11, from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's astonishing Kandahar to Saddiq Barmak's angry work Osama, to explore this most recent and breathtaking revival in Iranian cinema.
Author : Sophie Duhnkrack
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783640334841
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: 85, Ben Gurion University, course: The 1979 Iranian Revolution: A Thirty-Year Perspective, language: English, abstract: An analysis of the recent development of Iranian Cinema should primarily mention its origins and history, especially since Iranian cinema always has been so closely linked to the political circumstances dominating the social reality. Its outset is generally accepted to have begun around 1900, when Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi, the official photographer of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, shot the first Iranian documentary.... As Richard Tapper states in his work, The New Iranian Cinema, “both government and religious authorities sought to control the images to be shown publicly.” ‘Formal censorship’ began in the 1920s, when the imported films exhibiting women, sex and amusement dominated the Iranian market. In contrast to this permissive attitude, depicting the political or social reality critically in local productions was taboo. Until the Second World War “nothing worthy of being called ‘national cinema’” was produced. In these decades, Iranian films were mainly remakes of foreign works, mainly Indian or Egyptian, and normally they lacked artistic quality. This genre of films is known as “Film Farsi.” Along with the development of film comes the history of censorship, which tries to curb the freedom of expression in increasingly institutionalized manners. Indeed, in 1950 a committee for the supervision of locally produced or imported films was established. This might have contributed to the fact that in the 1950s and 1960s, next to the import of American and Indian films, only “commercial films” were famous in Iran, whose sole aim was to entertain and to fill the cash tills. In this period too, the censorship worried more about the expression of political opinions than about the demonstration of sex. However, on the edge of mainstream productions slowly evolved few other interesting and formative films. “1969 is generally agreed to mark the birth of Iranian art cinema, called the New Wave.” In the following period various films were successfully presented to international film festivals. However, from its beginning on, the evolution of Iranian cinema was constantly accompanied by a consistent religious opposition. Through the lens of many Iranian clerics, films were immoral. They denounced cinema as a tool to access corrupt western influence into Iran. This suspicion and aversion against cinema, which was deep-rooted in many Iranian clergymen found later on as well expression in the Islamic Republic.
Author : Hamid Naficy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822347750
DIVSocial history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena. The first volume focuses on silent era cinema and the transition to sound./div
Author : Parviz Jahed
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783204717
Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume in the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of Iran, with particular attention to the major genres and movements, historical turning points and prominent figures that have helped shape it. Considering a wide range of genres, including Film Farsi, New Wave, war film, art house film and women’s cinema, the book was greeted with enthusiasm by film studies scholars, students working on alternative or national cinema and fans and aficionados of Iranian film. Building on the momentum and influence of its predecessor, Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 will be welcomed by all seeking an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to Iranian cinema.
Author : Fereydoun Moezi Moghadam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 918613132X
"Cinema Mihan," means "Homeland Movie Theatre" in Persian, but saying it in an ironic tone in Persian or Farsi, the language in which this book is written, it also means "Spectacular Homeland" too. "Cinema Mihan," written by Fereydoun Moezi Moghadam, a socio-cultural old student and writer, also a professional "cinephile," is not a book on Iranian cinema, nor a book on the history of cinema in Iran, but rather an enterprise, taking Iran's modern history as a movie theatre, where the screen lends itself to numerous sharp and witty notes on social, cultural and political events over three centuries in a country that has never been freed of its devastating Asian feudal structure including an 'up dating' theocracy only with mobile phones and Internet only for arresting and killing all dissidents and dilapidating free lovers... In "Cinema Mihan" there are "trailers" in words of many Iranian cultural, social and political "movies," from "Encounter with Modern Kind" to "Everything You Wanted To Know About The Post Revolution Demographical Explosion of Iranian Film-makers But...," "Why Every Film Festival Must Have An Iranian Winner Too?," "Deep Throats of Foreign Film Producers," "Juliette Binush & Magnificent Abbas Kia-Rostami," "Citizen Golestan," "Trotskyites Who Voted Khomeini and his Islamic Dilapidations." Trailers of "movies" such as "Rossellini in Fascist Italy and Mussolini, as Kia-Rostami, Makhmalbaf, Ja'far Panahi and Others in Islamist Iran and Khomeini...." More "clips" of "Elites & Intellectuals, Hypocrisy & Betrayal," "A King who Wanted To Be A Man" which was shown also under the title of "A King Who Never Was" with a sequel: "An Ever A Virtual Nation," "Yes! Oil Can!," "The Ascend and Fall of A Popular Prime Minister," "Five Hundred Years of Religious Persecutions of Minorities," "How To Convert An Inevitable Fall Into A Fake Revolution..". Many other tips; scenes of "movies" such as "Closely Observed Iranian Films, Propaganda and Censorship." "Cinema Mihan" also has discovered forgotten archive rushes from 'tragic films' such as "Reagan's First Day & Hostages Go Home," "Oil and Nationalism," "1953, The Cheapest Coup d'etat ever made by CIA..".many others. This is really a book on "Movie of Iran." An over ten years personal socio-historical study & research, going beyond the swampy and corrupted Qajar Dynasty, when cinema was introduced to Iranian society, to another bloody and rotten order, that of Safavid, over five centuries ago, when Shia was forced as national religion and when in a French travelogue, one can read: "There were about 12000 tax payer prostitutes in Isfahan of "all Shia Shah Abass time...." A founder member of Iranian Writers Association, Fereydoun Moezi Moghadam has offered a must reading for not only all film-lover Iranians but also for those who are looking for a daring pen on modern social history of this country, this cinema, this Iran.
Author : Godfrey Cheshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571191738
Author : Hamid Naficy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822348771
"Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, [this four-volume set] explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Mohammed Ismail
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783668635685
Academic Paper from the year 2015 in the subject Film Science, grade: 4.0/4.0, University of Calicut, course: BA English Language and Literature, language: English, abstract: The emergence of a vibrant and creative film industry in Iran in the wake of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 is one of the most singular developments in the international film scenario in recent years. Carving out a niche for themselves, movies from Iran have widely been watched and discussed. Neorealism, a cinematic movement which brought about sweeping changes in world movie history is observed to have had a strong influence on the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. This study attempts to outline the inter linking features of Italian and Iranian neorealisms by understanding the peculiar aspects of the movements and by analyzing Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Where Is My Friend’s House’ for the neorealist elements.