World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film
industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new technologies and increased …

Central to many definitions of the term “cultural imperialism” is the idea of the culture of one
powerful civilization, country, or institution having great unreciprocated influence on that of …

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career
academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the cinema of Iran. The book is …

This paper explores the potential of realist cinema to portray resistance to oppression and
restrictions on people's lives. Wadjda (2013) presents a special case in world cinema in …

In recent years, Iranian 'quality cinema'has presented itself as a significant branch of the
world's cinematic practices and discourses. Similarly, the scholarship on cinematic aspects …

Cinema has a complex relation with the state and social reality in Iran. Between 2001 and
2004, Iranian cinema was under the control of the ideology of the Islamic Left. Students who …

My PhD thesis explores Iranian urban daily life by analysing Iranian cinema. Many scholars
from different perspectives have focused on Iranian society in various political, social and …

In meiner Dissertation beschäftige ich mich mit den Potenzialen irritierender Ästhetiken am
Beispiel aktueller iranischer Filme. Diese sind: A DRAGON ARRIVES!(R.: Mani Haghighi, IR …

Halfway through the film Ghesseh-hā (Tales, 2014), we embark with a documentary
filmmaker in a minivan full of people conducting some industrial action. Their factory has …

The intention of this practice-based, critical screen production research is to explore both the
discourse and filmmaking praxis of representing women in Iranian avant-garde cinema, a …