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Introduction
Since 1979, Iran has made headlines with uncanny frequency, and mostly for unfortunate reasons. The image of Ayatollah Khomeini captivated minds around the world and began to shape the geopolitics of the regio...
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Regarding You
In November 2009, Bahman Ghobadi, the young Iranian-Kurdish director, wrote an open letter to Abbas Kiarostami, the father figure of Iranian cinema. Ghobadi, who once worked as Kiarostami’s assistant, has been...
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Deafening Silence
In this concluding chapter, as I reach the limits of my analysis, I intend to analyze limits and margins. I have four different, though related, concepts of limits in mind. First, by focusing on a film by the ...
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How Orphans Believe
In the Introduction, I explicitly emphasized that I do not intend to provide a single comprehensive philosophy of Iranian cinema. Such a reductive attempt would fail to do justice to the range of philosophy of fi...
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Committed Perception
In Chapter 2’s discussion of Taste of Cherry and Abbas Kiarostami’s unique style, I touched on the issue of censorship. Given its importance in Iranian cinema, it deserves close examination. As I stated in the In...
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Stolen Jouissance
This chapter continues with Lacan by elaborating on some underdeveloped concepts from Chapter 4’s analysis of Close-Up. It does this by analyzing Marzieh Meshkini’s The Day I Became a Woman (2000). Among the dire...
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“What Are Filmmakers for in Needy Times?”
The title of this chapter is a reference to Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem “Bread and Wine,” in which he asks “What are poets for in needy times?” Hölderlin and the question he posed mattered greatly to Martin Hei...
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Kenya
Before the independence of Kenya from the United Kingdom in 1963, foreign production companies used Kenya as a backdrop for films shot in the country. After becoming a republic, film production started to rise...
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Namibia
Namibia gained independence from South Africa in 1990. Before this period, little cinematic data is available. John Marshall, an American working and living in Namibia, released documentaries about the country...
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Palestine
Palestine has a relatively young cinema with a multilingual output — films are produced using Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew. In the early days of the industry, work was focused primarily in the documenta...
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Armenia
After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, the centralized government formed the Armenian Film Foundation in 1923. With the establishment of Armenfilm (Hayfilm) studios in the same year, Arm...
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A Brief History of Film ‘Filesharing’: From Napster to Mega
Before launching into a history of ‘filesharing’, this chapter will take issue with the terminology used within its own heading while acknowledging that, despite the problematic association with the term ‘file...
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Reframing Parody and Intertextuality in Scream: Formal and Theoretical Approaches to the ‘Postmodern’ Slasher
As a pivotal slasher film of the 1990s, Scream (1996; dir Wes Craven) is distinctive from earlier productions of the genre in its multiple allusions to other films and art forms that had preceded it. Its uniquene...
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Undermining the Moneygrubbers, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Friday the 13 th Part V
I have written elsewhere about film form and aesthetics in the Friday the 13 th film series and even about the particular strengths of this specific entry in the series; however, t...
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Finland
The history of film in Finland began at the same time as modern motion picture technology was invented. The Lumière brothers screened the first moving images in Helsinki in 1896. However, it was a decade befor...
