Asghar Farhadi
Subtitle: Life and Cinema
Publisher: Critical Pr
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781941629024; 9781941629031
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Motion picture producers and directors; Screenwriters
Description: "In 2012, A Separation became the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This was a milestone not just for Iranian cinema, but for the film's director, Asghar Farhadi. Though now celebrated world-wide ... Farhadi's career nevertheless remains under-explored among international audiences ... [this] provides the first extensive analysis of this important auteur's work, from his beginning as a screenwriter and earliest features to ... The Past. Including a long and in-depth interview with the director himself, [this] details the filmmaker's influences, development and maturation, providing the first English introduction to this new Iranian master"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.