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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…
Hamoun by Dāriūsh Mehrjū’ī
Hamid Hamoun, a middle-aged Iranian sales agent and writer/intellectual in a conflicting relationship with his…
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…
Maybe Some Other Time | شاید وقتی دیگر
Introduction Maybe Some Other Time (Shayad Vaghti Digar [1988]) displays the lives of Modabber and…