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The Anthropological Unconscious of Iranian Ethnographic Films: A Brief Take
Pre-Revolution Ethnographic Filmmaking: Salvage Ethnography Ethnographic filmmaking—defined as making films that represent one culture to…
Tracing The Tooba Character in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Cinema
Drawn out by Rakhshan Banietemad in 1985, the role of Tuba, the filmmaker’s most iconic…
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Homayunshahr, also known as Sedeh (now called Khomeinishahr),…
Self-Reflexivity in Iranian New Wave Cinema
Introduction In Khers (translated into English as No Bear [2022]), the acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi,…
Film Production at Kanun-i Parvarish-i Fikry (Center for The Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults)
Introduction Non-fiction, sponsored, institutional, and children’s films are integral to the history of Iranian cinema….
Mahdi Ivanov (Rusi Khan)
Mahdi (Rusi Khan) Ivanov was born in Tehran on 15 October 1875 of Russian Tatar…
‛Abbās Kīyārustamī’s Early Cinema: The Production of Gendered Space in 1970s Iran
Introduction This article examines the early cinematographic works of ‛Abbās Kīyārustamī (1940-2016), spotlighting the intricate…
From Defense to Intervention: The Iran-Iraq War on Screen and the Evolution of Sacred Defense Cinema
Introduction Despite having ended nearly 40 years ago, the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) still resonates today,…
Tehran in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Films
Introduction Cities and urban spaces have always provided a leading geographical platform for cinematic narratives….
Women’s Cinema in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Iranian women’s cinema is a theater of activism, audacity, and determination and women have played…
Iranian Horror Cinema
… the shadow (sayah) has an importance in the non-material world (ghayr-i madi)… etymologically, the…
Silent Cinema
To research silent cinema in Iran is to reconsider what aspects of cinema history, broadly…
Internet Cinema: A Cinema of Embodied Protest
This article is about an emergent form of cinema in whose production and propagation most…
The International Reception of Iranian Cinema
Introduction Iranian cinema entered the European film festival scene in the 1960s.1Roy Armes, Third World Filmmaking…
A Simple Event
Introduction This article offers an analysis of Suhrāb Shahīd Sālis’s debut film, A Simple Event…
Travelers (1991)
Mahtāb, with her husband and two young sons, travels from northern Iran to Tehran in…
Taste of Cherry
In the film Taste of Cherry (Dir. ‛Abbās Kīyārustamī, 1997), Mr. Badīʻī (played by Humāyūn…