Peter Decherney - Iranian Cinema in a Global Context

Iranian film has been the subject of much critical and scholarly attention over the past several decades, and Iranian filmmakers are mainstays of international film festivals. Yet most of the attention has been focused on a small segment of Iranian film production: auteurist art cinema. Iranian Cinema in a Global Context, on the other hand, takes account of the wide range of Iranian cinema, from popular youth films to low-budget underground films. The volume also reassesses the global circulation of Iranian art cinema, looking at its reception at international festivals, in university curricula, and at the Academy Awards. A final theme of the volume explores the intersection between politics and film, with essays on post-Khatami reform influences, representations of ineffective drug policies, and the representation of Jewish characters in Iranian film. Taken together, the essays in this volume present a new definition of the field of Iranian film studies, one that engages global media flows, transmedia interaction, and a heterogeneous Iranian national cinema.

Peter Decherney is a professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywoods Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet and Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American.

Blake Atwood is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coordinator of the Persian Language Program and an affiliate of the Program in Comparative Literature.

1 Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema
Homeless at Home
Inga Scharf

2 Lesbianism, Cinema, Space
The Sexual Life of Apartments
Lee Wallace

3 Post-War Italian Cinema
American Intervention, Vatican Interests
Daniela Treveri Gennari

5 Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers
The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear
Julian Hanich

6 Cinema, Memory, Modernity
The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema
Russell J.A. Kilbourn

7 Distributing Silent Film Serials
Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation
Rudmer Canjels

9 Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique
Edited by Jyotsna Kapur and Keith B. Wagner

10 Koreas Occupied Cinemas, 18931948
The Untold History of the Film Industry
Brian Yecies with Ae-Gyung Shim

11 Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas
The Reel Asian Exchange
Edited by Philippa Gates & Lisa Funnell

13 Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal
Public Daydreams
Anna Siomopoulos

15 Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism
Ingrid Bergman in Rossellinis Italy
Ora Gelley

16 Postwar Renoir
Film and the Memory of Violence
Colin Davis

17 Cinema and Inter-American Relations
Tracking Transnational Affect
Adrin Prez Melgosa

18 European Civil War Films
Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia
Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

19 The Aesthetics of Antifascism
Radical Projection
Jennifer Lynde Barker

20 The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film
Plus Ultra Pluralism
Matthew J. Marr

21 Cinema and Language Loss
Displacement, Visuality and the Filmic Image
Tijana Mamula

22 Cinema as Weather
Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change
Kristi McKim

23 Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film
Cinema Year Zero
Giuliana Minghelli

24 Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Gender as Genre
John Alberti

25 Crossover Cinema
Cross-cultural Film from Production to Reception
Edited by Sukhmani Khorana

26 Spanish Cinema in the Global Context
Film on Film
Samuel Amago

27 Japanese Horror Films and Their American Remakes
Translating Fear, Adapting Culture
Valerie Wee

28 Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film
Framing Fatherhood
Hannah Hamad

29 Cine-Ethics
Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship
Edited by Jinhee Choi and Mattias Frey

31 The Womans Film of the 1940s
Gender, Narrative, and History
Alison L. McKee

32 Iranian Cinema in a Global Context
Policy, Politics, and Form
Edited by Peter Decherney and Blake Atwood