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Reform cinema in Iran : film and political change in the Islamic Republic /

It is nearly impossible to separate contemporary Iranian cinema from the Islamic revolution that transformed film production in the country in the late 1970s. As the aims of the revolution shifted and hardened once Khomeini took power and as an eight-year war with Iraq dragged on, Iranian filmmakers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Atwood, Blake Robert, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Film and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: revolutionary cinema and the logic of reform
  • When love entered cinema: mysticism and the emerging poetics of reform
  • Screening reform: campaign movies, documentaries, and urban Tehran
  • Video democracies: or, the death of the filmmaker
  • Who killed the tough guy? continuity and rupture in the filmfarsi tradition
  • Film archives and online videos: the search for reform in post-Khatami Iran
  • Conclusion: Iran's cinema museum and political unrest.