| Author | : Farhang Erfani |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2012-01-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137012927 |
In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one philosopher and one particular aesthetic question.
| Author | : Hamid Dabashi |
| Publisher | : Mage Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2023-05-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1949445550 |
An academically acclaimed and globally celebrated cultural critic, Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books and articles on Iran, Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art, among them Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (editor), Iran: A People Interrupted, and Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation. He lives with his family in New York City.
| Author | : Mathew Abbott |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2016-10-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1474404677 |
A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas KiarostamiMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostamis films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work.Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, NoAl Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostamis most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love.
| Author | : Matthias Wittmann |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Iran |
| ISBN | : 9781399509114 |
Counter-Memories are memories that are barred from hegemonic history, but are, nevertheless present in cinematic forms. They have the potential to destabilise official narratives and normative orders of remembering. Due to the strategic and artistic interventions of a range of Iranian filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Shahram Mokri, Ali Hatami and Tahmineh Milani, Kianoush Ayari and Rakshan Banietemad, the history of post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema is also structured by counter-memories, with the potential to destabilise officially fabricated success stories of revolution, war and sacred defence. 'Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema' establishes a new framework for understanding the tensions between censorship and resistance, helping to carve out resistant points of remembering both within and outside state-controlled cinema.
| Author | : Kaveh Askari |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2022-01-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520329767 |
"Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effects on Iranian film cultures in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and before Iran became a notable site of so-called world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process. "--
| Author | : Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab |
| Publisher | : Leiden University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9789087281694 |
Conflict and Development in Iranian film' tells the story of the history and development of Iranian cinema in the light of artistic and philosophical alliance within the Persian visual and poetic tradition. This volume collects eight essays that highlight different aspects of Iranian film and television series.
| Author | : Golbarg Rekabtalaei |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2019-01-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108418511 |
A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.
| Author | : Matthew Holtmeier |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2019-01-03 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 1474423426 |
The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addressing dominant, militant, or otherwise repressive ideologies. From a focus on the representation of oppression in films like The Battle of Algiers, films such as Timbuktu, Nobody Knows About Persian Cats and Chop Shop now contribute to the active formation of political characters and viewers, a form not fully realized until the 21st century due to shifts in information technologies and resulting political organization. This book demonstrates that a contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity and networks of protest, which depicts the active formation of political identities that resonates with off-screen protest movements.
| Author | : Nacim Pak-Shiraz |
| Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2018-06-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781784539450 |
In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss publicly inside the Islamic Republic of Iran - such as the role of clergy in Iranian society. Nacim Pak-Shiraz here highlights how many Iranian film directors concern themselves with the content of the religious and historical narratives of culture and society, sparking debate about the medium's compatibility or incongruity with religion and spirituality. She explores the various ways that Shi'i discourse emerges on screen, and offers groundbreaking insights into both the role of film in Iranian culture and society, and how it has become a medium for exploring what it means to be Iranian and Muslim after thirty years of Islamic rule. This is invaluable reading students and scholars of Film Studies and contemporary Iranian cinema, but also of the culture and identity of Iran more widely.
