The New Wave Cinema in Iran

Parviz Jahed is an independent scholar based in the UK. He is also a film critic, film researcher, filmmaker and lecturer in film studies. He is the editor-in-chief of Cine-Eye, a UK based film journal focused on independent and art cinema, and editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Iran (2012).

Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Iranian New Wave (Mowj-e No)
a. Recognition of and challenging Mowj-e No
2. The Internal Factors
a. Cinema and the Negotiation of Modernity in Iran
b. The Emergence of National Cinema
c. Nativism vs. Westoxication (Gharbzadegi)
d. The Enablement and Obstructionism of the State
e.The Mechanisms of Censorship
f.The Establishment of Cultural Institutions and Film Centres
3. Looking for an Alternative Cinema in Iran
a. Status of Critical Film Discourse in the 1960s Iran
b. Intellectual Cinema and Challenging Filmfarsi
c. New Wave, the Lost Identity and Manifestation of Utopian Cinema
4. New Wave and the Literary Tradition
a. Adaptation from Persian Classical Literature
b. Later Fantasy and Folktales
c. Interaction between Mowj-e No and Modern Literature
5. The External Influences
a. The Footprint of Italian Neorealism
b. The Global Impact of the French Nouvelle Vague
c. The French Nouvelle Vague and the Iranian Mowj-e No
d. Freydoun Hoveyda, the Auteur Theory and Iran’s New Wave
6. The Forerunners of the New Wave Cinema in Iran
a. Ebrahim Golestan and Writing with a Camera
b. The Legacy of Farrokh Ghaffari
c. Fereydoun Rahnema and his Self-Reflexive Cinema
7. New Wave Successors and New Film Aesthetics
a. Formalistic Approach in Mowj-e No
b. Social Realism and Street Film Genre

Afterword
Bibliography
Index