Iranian cinema : a political history
Annotation Post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema has 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 its cinema re-reads the films themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, economic and social situations. The book covers the entire spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of all key films and looking at recurring themes and tropes, such as the preponderance of images of childhood. He brings the story up to date to look at Iranian filmmaking after the events of September 11, from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's astonishing Kandahar to Saddiq Barmak's angry work Osama
eBook, English, 2006
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2006