From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between: Reframing Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

by Christopher Gow

The New Iranian Cinema has had a fascinating success story in world cinema and critics have hailed Iranian films as alternatives to the homogenising global influence of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Drawing on seminal ideas of 'art cinema', Christopher Gow examines how the success of this cinema and the films of Abbas Kiarostami, its foremost proponent, can be accounted for by the extent to which they fit into a pre-established notion of art cinema...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848855273
• ISBN13: 9781848855274
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"