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
“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...
