The Films of Makhmalbaf: Cinema, Politics & Culture in Iran انگلیسی 2005
The Films of Makhmalbaf: Cinema, Politics & Culture in Iran
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شابک:
0934211949
ناشر:
MAGE PUBLISHERS
گروه سنی:
بزرگسال
صفحات:
240
وزن:
650 g
ابعاد:
18 x 25 x 1٫68 cm
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جلد سخت
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No one better personifies Iranian cinema today than Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a filmmaker whose life and career have been shapedTindeed definedTby the 1979 Islamic revolution and the complex forces surrounding it. Vividly and at times almost pitilessly, his films mirror Iranian culture in the years leading up to the revolution and following it. From the start, Makhmalbaf has explored the relationship between the individual and a larger social and political environment. As a result, his work serves as an extended commentary on the history of the Iranian state and its people. But if MakhmalbafYs films are at times polemic, he nonetheless brings an artistYs sensibility to central issues of the human condition: God, love, regret, suffering, and injustice.
In The Films of Makhmalbaf Eric Egan examines the close and volatile relationship between a highly popular art form and the politics of power in Iranian society. Through a critical analysis of Mohsen MakhmalbafYs films, the book traces the development of IranYs national cinema both before and under the Islamic Republic. An artist whose work is provocative and never far from controversy, MakhmalbafYs films have always
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(For US customer $ 30)
No one better personifies Iranian cinema today than Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a filmmaker whose life and career have been shapedTindeed definedTby the 1979 Islamic revolution and the complex forces surrounding it. Vividly and at times almost pitilessly, his films mirror Iranian culture in the years leading up to the revolution and following it. From the start, Makhmalbaf has explored the relationship between the individual and a larger social and political environment. As a result, his work serves as an extended commentary on the history of the Iranian state and its people. But if MakhmalbafYs films are at times polemic, he nonetheless brings an artistYs sensibility to central issues of the human condition: God, love, regret, suffering, and injustice.
In The Films of Makhmalbaf Eric Egan examines the close and volatile relationship between a highly popular art form and the politics of power in Iranian society. Through a critical analysis of Mohsen MakhmalbafYs films, the book traces the development of IranYs national cinema both before and under the Islamic Republic. An artist whose work is provocative and never far from controversy, MakhmalbafYs films have always
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