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Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future

By: Hamid Dabashi

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Paperback | 17 November 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Abbas Kiraostami planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1997 for his film A Taste of Cherry. In this book Hamid Dabashi examines the growing reputation of Iranian cinema from its origines in the films of Kimiyai and Mehrjui, through the work of established directors such as Kiraostami, Beyzai and Bani-Etemad, to young film-makers 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 globally celebrated but little-studied cinematic genre.

Unabashedly polemical, he dissects the idea of the oriental in western perceptions of Iranian cinema and details the way that film festivals and distribution in the west have shaped domestic output in Iran. He looks, too, at the particular difficulties faced by women film-makers in a country of Islamic orthodoxy, and the obstacles placed in the path of directors attempting to introduce dissident politics in their work.

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"Hamid Dabashi's learned book on Iranian cinema in the era of globalization sparkles with verve and a sometimes punishing wit. Encyclopaedic in its scope, informal in tone, shrew in its interpretation, it is the indispensable work on one of the most extraordinary artistic and social adventures of our time. Dabashi is the perfect guide." - Edward W. Said "With Hamid Dabashi's new book, we finally have a reading of the post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema from within Iranian culture and society. Dabshi traces the deep roots of the work of filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Rakshan Bani-Etemad, and shows how their work opens up a fascinating and far-reaching interrogation of contemporary cultural production." - Richard Pena "A better understanding of Iranian cinema needed someone as much aware of its global significance as knowledgeable of its immediate social roots - Hamid Dabashi is one of those rare cultural critics who has been able to add such perspective." - Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
On Modernity and the Making of a National Cinema	p. 12
The commencement of modernity
A window unto the world
The constitutional revolution
The Making of an Iranian Filmmaker: Abbas Kiarostami	p. 33
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	p. 76
Daybreak
Remythologizing the real
Mythologies
Ritual birth
Urban legends
Bahman Farmanara: Twice upon a Time	p. 112
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	p. 156
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	p. 213
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	p. 244
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	p. 283
Notes	p. 291
Acknowledgments	p. 299
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