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Instructor: Dr. Farbod Honarpisheh
Course Description:
Called “one of the most extraordinary artistic and social adventures of our time” by Edward Said, the Iranian cinema continues to be a prolific and multifaceted phenomenon, producing about 100 (fiction) features a year. With their own particular industrial/financial structure and unique thematic and aesthetic characteristics, Iranian films have found their place within the global distribution circuits (festivals and beyond). This course will explore the rather tumultuous history of filmmaking in this important Middle Eastern country from its inception more than a hundred years ago to the present. The focus, however, will be on the influential directors who have emerged in the last five decades, during the Iranian New Wave of the 1960s and 70s and after the 1979 revolution. Works of such accomplished filmmakers as Darius Mehrjui, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, and Asghar Farhadi will be screened and analyzed.Iranian women play a significant roleboth behind and in front of the camera (not to mention in the theaters of the country). Three weeks of the course will be devoted to women filmmakers (directors, writers, stars) and the question of gender. Never sealed off from the world, Iranian cinema and film culturegrew in creative negotiation with the cultural currents coming from beyond the nation’s borders. We will examine economic, social, and aesthetic factors, transnational as well as local, which have informed the shape and attributes of contemporary Iranian cinema(s).
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