Musa Khamushi

Musa Khamushi is an independent researcher and an historian of cinema. In 2018 he completed his PhD in History of Iran at the University of Shiraz, Iran on a project concerning American Missionaries in Iran during the Nineteenth Century. In 2019 he as a Hans-Robert Roemer Fellow in OIB (Orient Institut Beirut) did research on the role of women in Iranian cinema during the Pahlavi era. 

His research interests are mainly in Iranian cinema as well as American cinema, Italian cinema and the interrelations of the three. Some of his publications in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Routledge include “Religious Beliefs Concerning Cinema versus Iranian Women (1904–1934)” and “The Carriage Driver in the Pink Frame of Neorealism”. He has published some other articles in American and Iranian journals too.

Contributions

Marjān and The House is Black: First Two Films by Iranian Women Directors

Introduction From the birth of the Iranian cinema in 1931 until the end of the Pahlavī era in 1979, women…