The New Iranian Cinema
Subtitle: Politics, Representation and Identity
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: September 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860648038
Subjects: Cinema industry; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Political aspects; Iran; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / General; Film & Video - General; Motion pictures
First sentence: In the early 1970s, a number of films by Iranian directors attracted considerable international attention, as Roy Armes notes in his seminal work Third World Film Making and the West: 1970 [saw] the appearance of a New Iranian Cinema...created by a fairly heterogeneous group of young intellectuals, many of them foreign-educated, and receiving some support from the Ministry of Culture and the state television service.