Reform cinema in Iran : film and political change in the Islamic Republic / Blake Atwood.

Author
Atwood, Blake Robert, 1983- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Description
x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    In Reform Cinema in Iran, Blake Atwood examines how new industrial and aesthetic practices created a distinct cultural and political style in Iranian film between 1989 and 2007. Atwood analyzes a range of popular, art, and documentary films. He provides new readings of internationally recognized films such as Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997) and Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Time for Love (1990), as well as those by Rakhshan Bani, Masud Kiami, and other key Iranian directors. At the same time, he also considers how filmmakers and the film industry were affected by larger political and religious trends that took shape during Mohammad Khatami's presidency (1997-2005). Atwood analyzes political speeches, religious sermons, and newspaper editorials and pays close attention to technological developments, particularly the rise of video, to determine their role in democratizing filmmaking and realizing the goals of political reform. He concludes with a look at the legacy of reform cinema, including films produced under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose neoconservative discourse rejected the policies of reform that preceded him. --Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241), filmography (pages 243-244) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: revolutionary cinema and the logic of reform
    • When love entered cinema: mysticism and the emerging poetics of reform
    • Screening reform: campaign movies, documentaries, and urban Tehran
    • Video democracies: or, the death of the filmmaker
    • Who killed the tough guy? continuity and rupture in the filmfarsi tradition
    • Film archives and online videos: the search for reform in post-Khatami Iran
    • Conclusion: Iran's cinema museum and political unrest.
    ISBN
    • 9780231178167 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0231178166 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780231178174 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0231178174 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016013376
    OCLC
    947817054
    Other standard number
    • 40026578602
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