Trends in Iranian Cinema

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is Associate Professor of linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran. He is the author of Tense in Persian (2002), and a co-author of Faarsi Biyaamuzim (2001) and Persian for Dummies (2017). He is also the co-editor of Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages (2019). Mohammad Rahmati holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Tehran in 2018. He has published articles in the Sociological Review (University of Tehran) and the Quarterly Journal of Social Sciences (Allameh Tabatabaei University), and has taught at a number of Iranian universities.

List of Contributors


Introduction
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari and Mohammad Rahmati

Part One: Iranian Cinema – A Look from Within

1 Eastern Caressing Eyes: Persian-Islamic Arts, Haptic Moments and Kiarostami’s Cinema
Milad Sotoudeh, Sajad Sotoudeh and Alireza Sayyad

2 A Semiological Analysis of Male–Female Relationships in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Asal Bagheri

3 Off-Screen Voice and Conditions of Meaning in The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) by Abbas Kiarostami
Hemen Heidari

4 The Production of War Films During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88) in Iran: A Singular Case in the History of Cinema
Agnès Devictor

5 Self-Reflexivity in Iranian New Wave Cinema: The Cases of Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf and Panahi
Pardis Minuchehr

6 Coming of Age: Watching the Iranian Youth Grow Up on the Screen
Hossein Khosrowjah

7 Representation of Social Issues in Iranian Cinema
Azam Ravadrad

Part Two: Iranian Cinema and Its Global Reach

8 The Global Roads of Kiarostami
Jean-Michel Frodon

9 France–Iran: Fifty Years of Mutual Influence and Admiration
Laurent Garreau

10 Perspectives of Iranian Films in German Cinema
Stefan Piasecki

11 Presentation of Italian Films in Iran, and Their Impact on Iranian Cinema: A Historical Overview
Mohammad Foad Abachi

12 Persia on Celluloid: Depicting the ‘Lure’ and ‘Decadence’ of Iran in European Films, 1900s–1930
Golbarg Rekabtalaei