Conflict and Development in Iranian Film

Seyed-Gohrab, Kamran Talattof

• Publisher: Leiden University Press
• Year: 2012
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9789400601031
• Subtopic: Film Direction & Production
• Index: History

The chapters in this volume explore the philosophical underpinnings and cinematic techniques characteristic of Iranian film. Collectively, they show how the pervasive themes of Iranian cinema, such as martyrdom and war, gender roles, and social policy issues have been addressed, and how directors have approached them using a variety of techniques. Some chapters outline the poetic and mystical dimensions of Abbas Kiarostami's movies. Other chapters describe the effects of the Islamic Revolution on codes of morality and their expression in film as well as on directors' tactics in response to the new theocratic system.

Table of contents

• Content
• Acknowledgements
• Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film
• The Sound of Frogs at Night: Kiarostami’s Philosophy of Cinema
• Sexuality and Cultural Change: The Presentation of Sex and Gender in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema
• Kiarostami’s Cinematic Poetry in Where is the Friend’s Home? and The Wind will Carry Us
• Which Half is Hidden? The Public or the Private: An Analysis of Milani’s The Hidden Half
• Abbas Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal
• Contemporary Liminal Encounters: Moving Beyond Traditional Plots in Majidi’s Bârân
• Virtuous Heroines: A Mythical Reading of Female Protagonists in Contemporary Iranian Television Serials
• Marziyeh Meshkini’s The Day I Became a Woman
• Index