Iranian Cinema: A Political History

by Hamid Reza Sadr

Book Overview

Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth century, has been perceived in the main as lacking in artistic merit and, crucially, as apolitical in content. This highly readable history of Iran as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845111478
• ISBN13: 9781845111472
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 8.6"