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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
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Routledge advances in film studies.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; PART I Essays; 2 Iranian Film Policy in a Global Context; 3 Re/Form: New Forms in Cinema and Media in Post-Khatami Iran; 4 From Theater to Cinema and Vice-Versa: Socio-Political and Economic Reasons for Professional Circulation; 5 The Iranian Shylock: Jewish Representation in Iranian Film; 6 A Grave State: Rahkshan Bani-Etemad's Mainline; 7 Through the Looking Glass: Reflexive Cinema and Society in Post-Revolution Iran; 8 The Rise of "Youth Pop" Films in Contemporary Iran |
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9 Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association and the Fight for the House of CinemaPART II Short Takes; 10 Notes on the Reception of Iranian Films in Brazil; 11 Pomegranates and Cinema: Some Observations on a Decade or So of Selecting and Screening Iranian Films; 12 Who Are They?: Introducing American Students to Iran through Mohammad Shirvani's Short Film, The Candidate; 13 The Haunting Obituary of a Dying Patriarch: A Separation; 14 The Contested Social Spaces of Film Practices Since 2009 in Iran; 15 Underground Cinema in Iran; 16 Censorship in Iranian Cinema; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Iranian films have been the subject of much critical and scholarly attention over the past several decades, and Iranian filmmakers are mainstays of international film festivals. Yet most of the attention has been focused on a small segment of Iranian film production: auteurist art cinema. Iranian Cinema in a Global Context, on the other hand, takes account of the wide range of Iranian cinema, from popular youth films to low budget underground films. The volume also reassesses the global circulation of Iranian art cinema, looking at its reception at international festivals, in university curric |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Iran
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Motion pictures -- Iran -- History.
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Atwood, Blake
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| ISBN |
9781317675204 |
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1317675207 |
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