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The Ethics of the ‘Listening Eye’: Exploring the Critical Excesses of Iranian ‘Social Films’

Keyvan Manafi
September 2013
Feature Articles
‘Social films’ (Film-e ejtema'i), understood in Iranian film reviews and journalistic discourse as socio-politically committed films characterized by realist aesthetics and mode of narration, have been a major ...

Walls and Mirrors: Iranian Films at the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival

Adrian Danks
July 2012
2012 MIFF Dossier
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has showcased the New Iranian Cinema since a special focus in 1993 called “Spotlight Iran”. It has routinely highlighted particular peaks and trends, and has con...

Hamid Naficy, A Social History of Iranian Cinema

Michelle Langford
June 2012
Book Reviews
Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941 and Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978 As I turn over the last page of volume two of Hamid Naficy’s A Social History of Iranian Cinema, I hunger for more a...

A Year of Triumph and Tragedy: Iranian Cinema and the First Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA)

Michelle Langford
December 2011
Festival Reports
The inaugural Iranian Film Festival Australia kicked off in Brisbane on 4 August 2011 in spectacular fashion with a sell-out screening of Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed new film Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separatio...

Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema by Negar Mottahedeh

Michelle Langford
September 2009
Book Reviews
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“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and Sufi Poeticism on Contemporary Iranian Cinema

Rosa Holman
November 2006
Film & History Conference Papers
Since the early 1990s, contemporary Iranian cinema, with its culture of auteurism and poetic consciousness, has continued to inspire lively critical discourse and popular acclaim. Recent scholarship has ten...

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