Iranian Internet Cinema: A Cinema of Embodied Protest

Hamid Naficy

Abstract:

In this lecture, Naficy discusses Iranian internet cinema and the way it has been used to challenge the Iranian state's broadcasting monopoly and monovocalism. According to this conception, cinema is a new legitimate artistic and expressive form beside, regardless of its political uses.

Bio:

Hamid Naficy is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media, and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas and media.