A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4
Title | A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822348780 |
In the fourth and final volume of A History of Iranian Cinema, Hamid Naficy looks at the extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film and other visual media since the Islamic Revolution.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2
Title | A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2011-09-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822347741 |
Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1
Title | A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2011-09-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 082234775X |
DIVSocial history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena. The first volume focuses on silent era cinema and the transition to sound./div
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3
Title | A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822348772 |
"Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, [this four-volume set] explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran."--Page 4 of cover.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1
Title | A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Naficy |
Publisher | Duke University Press Books |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2011-09-16 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780822347545 |
Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran. This comprehensive social history unfolds across four volumes, each of which can be appreciated on its own. Volume 1 depicts and analyzes the early years of Iranian cinema. Film was introduced in Iran in 1900, three years after the country’s first commercial film exhibitor saw the new medium in Great Britain. An artisanal cinema industry sponsored by the ruling shahs and other elites soon emerged. The presence of women, both on the screen and in movie houses, proved controversial until 1925, when Reza Shah Pahlavi dissolved the Qajar dynasty. Ruling until 1941, Reza Shah implemented a Westernization program intended to unite, modernize, and secularize his multicultural, multilingual, and multiethnic country. Cinematic representations of a fast-modernizing Iran were encouraged, the veil was outlawed, and dandies flourished. At the same time, photography, movie production, and movie houses were tightly controlled. Film production ultimately proved marginal to state formation. Only four silent feature films were produced in Iran; of the five Persian-language sound features shown in the country before 1941, four were made by an Iranian expatriate in India. A Social History of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941 Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978 Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984 Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010
Iranian Cinema
Title | Iranian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Reza Sadr |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2006-09-29 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0857713701 |
Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course 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 the full breadth of its cinema re-reads the films themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, economic and social situations. Sadr argues that embedded within even the seemingly least noteworthy of mainstream Iranian films, we find themes and characterisations which reveal the political contexts of their time and which express the ideological underpinnings of a society. Beginning with the introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy, the book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of all key films. "Iranian Cinema" looks at recurring themes and tropes, such as the rural versus the 'corrupt' city and, recently, the preponderance of images of childhood, and asks what these have revealed about Iranian society. The author brings the story up to date explaining Iranian filmmaking after the events of September 11, from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's astonishing Kandahar to Saddiq Barmak's angry work Osama, to explore this most recent and breathtaking revival in Iranian cinema.
Close Up
Title | Close Up PDF eBook |
Author | Hamid Dabashi |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781859846261 |
Abbas Kiarostami planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for his film A Taste of Cherry in 1997. In this book Hamid Dabashi examines the growing reputation of Iranian cinema from its origins in the films of Kimiyai and Mehrjui, through the work of established directors such as Kiarostami, Beyzai and Bani-Etemad, to young filmmakers like Samira Makhmalbaf and Bahman Qobadi, who triumphed at the Cannes 2000 festival. Dabashi combines exclusive interviews with directors, detailed and insightful commentary, critical cultural context, an extensive filmography, and generous illustration to provide an indispensable guide to a globally celebrated but little-studied cinematic genre. Book jacket.