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Film-e Faakher, the “Magnificent Productions”, or the “Islamic Blockbusters “ of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Second Presidential Term
Background When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was returned at the disputed June 12 2009 election, massive protests…
Iran’s Cinema in Pursuit of Happiness: Part I (1951-1971)
Cinema characters always have great importance for both filmmakers and researchers. Filmmakers can make their…
Poetic Pictures: The Feminization of Iranian Cinema
Introduction In a nation where poetry permeates common parlance, is used to justify arguments, offer…
Domestic Violence in Contemporary Iranian Cinema
This study of domestic violence in contemporary Iranian cinema, especially movies made after 2009 Presidential…
Doubt in Love; Reinterpreting Love in Two Films from Makhmalbaf’s Cinema: The Time of Love – 1991 and Sex & Philosophy – 2005
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, born in 1957, embodies the archetype of a revolutionary filmmaker. His career is…
The Hidden Half
In The Hidden Half, the fictional narrative of a female activist’s life history generates a…
Filming locations in Iranian cinema before the revolution (1930-1979)
In this article, the locations of pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema (1930-1979) are discussed. These locations, including…
A Comparative Study Concerning the First Two Films Directed by Iranian Women
From the birth of the Iranian cinema in 1931 until the end of the Pahlavi…
‛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…
Towards A Micropolitics of Homo-eroticism In Shirin Neshat’s Women without Men
In 1989, the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, wrote a novella entitled Zanaan bedoon-e Mardaan (Women…
Screaming in Silence; Representation of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Post-Islamic Revolution Iranian Cinema
The issue of sexual and gender minorities in many Muslim countries has never been discussed…
Local Genre and National Identity ; The Role of National Identity in the Development of the Filmfarsi Genre
The term “local genre” is one of the terms that may not be accepted by…