Conflict and Development in Iranian Film

A.A. Seyed-Gohrab is Associate Professor of Persian Literature and Culture at Leiden University.Kamran Talattof is a professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona.

• Acknowledgements Asghar Seyed-Gohrab & Kamran Talattof, Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film Yasco Horsman, The Sound of Frogs at Night: Kiarostami's Philosophy of Cinema Kamran Talattof, Sexuality and Cultural Change: The Presentation of Sex and Gender in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema Farzana Marie Dyrud, Kiarostami's Cinematic Poetry in Where is the Friend's Home? And The Wind will Carry Us Julie Ellison, Which Half is Hidden? The Public or the Private: An Analysis of Milani's The Hidden Half Khatereh Sheibani, Abbas Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal Omid Tofighian, Contemporary Liminal Encounters: Moving Beyond Traditional Plots in Majidi's Bârân Niloofar Niknam, Virtuous Heroines: A Mythical Reading of Female Protagonists in Contemporary Iranian Television Serials Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman Index

"This book advances our critical understanding of Iranian cinema and is a most welcome addition to the scholarly works available in the field." - Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine