Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Title on disc label and container: Iran, a cinematographic revolution Cinematographic revolution
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Other authors / contributors: | Homayoun, Nader T.
Bertrand, Nicolas.
Bayz̤āʼī, Bahrām.
Gaffary, Farrokh.
Makhmalbāf, Muḥsin.
Nādirī, Amīr
Beheshti, Mohammad.
Hatamikia, Ebrahim.
Bani-etemad, Rakhshan.
Panahi, Jafar.
Ghobadi, Bahman.
Avenue B Productions.
ARTE France.
First Run/Icarus Films.
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Notes: | Auteur, Nader T. Homayoun, Nicolas Bertrand ; music, Christophe Jullen. Commentary: Bahram Beyzai, Farrokh Gaffary, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Amir Naderi, Mohammad Beheshti, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi. DVD. In English and Farsi with English subtitles.
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Summary: | Traces the development of the Iranian film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, chronicling how Iranian films reflected contemporaneous society and often presaged social change. It shows how mainstream commercial cinema served as a propaganda tool for both the monarchy and the fundamentalist religious regime, recounts the sporadic efforts of some filmmakers to reveal grimmer social realties, and the struggles against censorship and traditional cinematic formulas by such pioneers as Bahram Beyzai and Sohrab Shahid Saless and pre- and post-Islamic revolutionary 'new wave' filmmakers.
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