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The essays provide a cultural, social, economic and political context for the films and their makers...
-Film magazine
An indispensable book for contextualising some of the most exciting movies being made.
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The essays provide a cultural, social, economic and political context for the films and their makers...
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In the early 1970s, a number of films by Iranian directors attracted considerable international attention, as Roy Armes notes in his seminal work Third World Film Making and the West: 1970 [saw] the appearance of a New Iranian Cinema...created by a fairly heterogeneous group of young intellectuals, many of them foreign-educated, and receiving some support from the Ministry of Culture and the state television service. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film farsi, cinema affairs, local film production, exhibition permits, progressive filmmakers, technological modernity, political cinema, cinematic career, ideological resistance, political film, poetic realism, international film festivals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Islamic Republic, New York, The Crystal Garden, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hamid Naficy, Islamic Revolution, The Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami, Divorce Iranian Style, Arts Centre, Ayatollah Khomeini, Capitalist Modernity, Los Angeles, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Bagh-e Bolur, Daryush Mehrju'i, Kadr-e Film, Bahram Beyza'i, Beyza'i's Bashu, Children of Heaven, Judge Deldar, Sacred Defence, Cannes Film Festival, Iran Times, Fajr Film Festival New!
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In the early 1970s, a number of films by Iranian directors attracted considerable international attention, as Roy Armes notes in his seminal work Third World Film Making and the West: 1970 [saw] the appearance of a New Iranian Cinema...created by a fairly heterogeneous group of young intellectuals, many of them foreign-educated, and receiving some support from the Ministry of Culture and the state television service. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
film farsi, cinema affairs, local film production, exhibition permits, progressive filmmakers, technological modernity, political cinema, cinematic career, ideological resistance, political film, poetic realism, international film festivals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Islamic Republic, New York, The Crystal Garden, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hamid Naficy, Islamic Revolution, The Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami, Divorce Iranian Style, Arts Centre, Ayatollah Khomeini, Capitalist Modernity, Los Angeles, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Bagh-e Bolur, Daryush Mehrju'i, Kadr-e Film, Bahram Beyza'i, Beyza'i's Bashu, Children of Heaven, Judge Deldar, Sacred Defence, Cannes Film Festival, Iran Times, Fajr Film Festival New!
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- Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (Afi Film Readers) by Hamid Naficy in Front Matter, page 65, and page 214
- The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles by Hamid Naficy in Front Matter, and page 24
- Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig on page 243, and page 253
- Iran Media Index (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History) by Hamid Naficy in Front Matter, and page 63
- Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha on page 242, and page 252
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- Muslim Ethics: Emerging Vistas by Amyn B. Sajoo in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Traditions in World Cinema by Linda Badley on page 187, and page 189
- Films of Makhmalbaf: Cinema, Politics and Culture in Iran by Eric Egan on page 67, and Back Matter
- Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema by Julie Codell on page 367, and page 406
- Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution by Nikki R. Keddie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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