Close Up Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future

Name: Close Up Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future
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ISBN: 9781859843321

ISBN-10: 1859843328

ISBN-13: 9781859843321

Edition: 2001

Authors: Hamid Dabashi

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This book examines the growing reputation of Iranian cinema, from its origins in the films of Kimiai and Mehrjui, through the work of directors such as Kiraostami, Beyzai and Bani-Etemad, to young film-makers like Bahman Qobadi.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.



List of illustrations


Introduction



On Modernity and the Making of a National Cinema


The commencement of modernity


A window unto the world


The constitutional revolution



The Making of an Iranian Filmmaker: Abbas Kiarostami


The 1950s


The 1960s


The 1970s


The year of the revolution


The 1980s


The 1990s



The Sight of the Invisible World: The Cinema of Bahram Beiza'i


Daybreak


Remythologizing the real


Mythologies


Ritual birth


Urban legends



Bahman Farmanara: Twice upon a Time


Studying in Los Angeles


Back to Iran


The early films


After Prince Ehtejab


At the dawn of the revolution


The rise of a new generation of filmmakers


Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine



Once upon a Filmmaker: Conversation with Mohsen Makhmalbaf


To the manner born


Precociously political


To take arms, ... and by opposing end them


In Pahlavi prison


At the dawn of the revolution


The politics of a poetic turn


Cinema saves


The totality of a cinematic career


The loss of a partner


Art as a future


The poetics of a visionary


Sources of cultural maladies



In the Speculum of the Other: The Feminine Figure of Modernity


Successive sites of resistance


In the curvature of the speculum


Deterritorializing the Iranian subject


A threesome arrangement



Whither Iranian Cinema? The Perils and Promises of Globalization


Tehran


Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)


Mix (2000)


Protest (2000)


The Wind Will Carry Us Away (1999)


Cannes


Jom'eh (2000)


A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)


The Apple (1998)


Blackboard (2000)


Whither Iranian cinema?


Filmography


Notes


Acknowledgments