Parviz Jahed

The New Wave Cinema in Iran (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Study

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The New Wave Cinema in Iran is a historical and analytical study of the Iranian New Wave Cinema (Mowj-e No) as an artistic and intellectual movement that came to its best early productions between 1958 and 1978. As the movement has a long history, Parviz Jahed focuses on the development and the early progression of the movement in the 1960s and explores its emergence and development in the context of the cultural and social conditions of Iran during this period.

Jahed first defines the term 'New Wave' in Iran's film culture, in order to identify the root elements that gave traction to this movement. He analyses the degree to which different elements and factors have contributed to the formation of this cinema, accounting for the different approaches of Iranian intellectual filmmakers towards modernity and a modern form of cinema in Iran. The book finishes by studying the works of three intellectual figures and influential filmmakers of the 1960s, Ebrahim Golestan, Farrokh Ghaffari, and Feraydoon Rahnama, who are arguably considered the forerunners of the New Wave Cinema in Iran.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501369117
• Artikelnr.: 63993492

Autorenporträt

Parviz Jahed holds a PhD in Modern Languages at the University of Saint Andrews, UK. He is a film scholar and researcher and his research interests include film studies, film criticism, and world cinema, specifically Iranian cinema. Parviz is the editor-in-chief of Cine-Eye film journal focused on independent and art cinema, and the editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Iran (in 2 volumes) published in 2012 and 2017. He was also the guest editor of the special issue of Film International Journal on Iranian Independent Cinema (2015). Jahed is currently working on a research about Ebrahim Golestan's modernist films and fictions.