An academically acclaimed and globally celebrated cultural critic, Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books and articles on Iran, Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art, among them Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (editor), Iran: A People Interrupted, and Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation. He lives with his family in New York City.
Table of Content
Introduction
Letter to a Young Filmmaker
Forugh Farrokhzad
The House Is Black
Ebrahim Golestan
Mud Brick and Mirror
Dariush Mehrjui
The Cow
Arby Ovanessian
Spring
Bahman Farmanara
Prince Ehtejab
Sohrab Shahid Sales
Still Life
Amir Naderi
The Runner
Bahram Beizai
Bashu, the Little Stranger
Abbas Kiarostami
Through the Olive Trees
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A Moment of Innocence
Marziyeh Meshkini
The Day I Became a Woman
Jafar Panahi
Crimson Gold
An Epistolary
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
About the author
An academically acclaimed and globally celebrated cultural critic, Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books and articles on Iran, Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art, among them Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (editor), Iran: A People Interrupted, and Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation. He lives with his family in New York City.
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