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Subtitle: Iranian cinema, past, present, and future
By: Hamid Dabashi.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Iran; Motion picture producers and directors -- Iran -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews
Other titles: Iranian cinema, past, present, and future.
Notes: Includes filmographies (p. [283]-290).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297).
Table of contents: title: On modernity and the making of a national cinema; title: The making of an Iranian filmmaker: Abbas Kiarostami; title: The sight of the invisible world: the cinema of Bahram Beiza'i; title: Bahman Farmanara: twice upon a time; title: Once upon a filmmaker: conversation with Mohsen Makhmalbaf; title: In the speculum of the other: the feminine figure of modernity; title: Whither Iranian cinema? The perils and promises of globalization.