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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…
A Critical Overview of Bahram Beyzaie’s Dramatic and Cinematic Oeuvre: Contour in Time (1959-2023)
Marginality, Epistemic Privilege and Creative Impulse Any overview of Beyzaie’s oeuvre must first examine the…
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,…
Kīyānūsh ‛Ayyārī’s The Abadanis: A Historical Testimony Silenced
Leading Iranian filmmakers in both pre- and post-revolutionary stages have been practitioners of reality depiction,…
Screening Love The Forbidden in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Nargess (1992)
Before the narrative even begins, Rakhshan Banietemad’s Nargess of 1992 engages with the theme of…
Abbas Kiarostami’s Documentary Objects; Cinema’s powers from rolling cans to errant footballs
Abbas Kiarostami’s work has often been praised for displaying at once formal simplicity and sophisticated…
Public Taste in Films
During the 1950s, public taste emerged as one of the most highly debated topics in…
Alternative Cinema: A Cinematic Revolution before the 1979 Revolution
Iranian pre-revolutionary cinema has been characterized by different cinematic trends. While distinct in their modes…
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…
