Description
Book SynopsisFollowing an introduction delineating the histories of the film industries of the countries that make up the Middle East and Central Asia – including Iran, Turkey, and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – both books contain interviews stretching over a decade, which position the filmmakers and their creative concerns within the social or political context of their respective countries. The striking variety of approaches toward each interview creates a rich diversity of tone and opens the door to a better understanding of images of 'otherness' in film. In addition to transcripts of the interviews, each chapter also includes stills from important films discussed, biographical information about the filmmakers and filmographies of their works.
Gönül Dönmez-Colin offers in these expanded editions a carefully researched and richly detailed firsthand account of the developments and trends in these regional film industries that is sure to be appreciated by film scholars and researchers of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
IRAN
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
The Hidden Half
Bahram Beyza’i
The Other Side of the Story
Abolfazl Jalili
Treading the Thin Line: Fiction as Documentary
Mahmud Kalari
Valuable Lessons of Camera
Abbas Kiarostami
Life and Nothing But…
Reality Without Interruption
Majid Majidi
Refugees in Love and Life
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Portrait of the Revolutionary as an Artist: Take One
Take Two
Dariush Mehrjui
From Social Realism to Dramas of the Interior
Tahmineh Milani
The Real Identity of Women
Jafar Panahi
A Place of their Own
TURKEY
Kutluğ Ataman
As Many Centres as Individuals
Handan İpekçi
Hidden Faces
Semih Kaplanoğlu
Fragments From Life in Reverse
Erden Kıral
Exile’s Return
Many Faces of Truth
Settling of Accounts
A Question of Conscience
Ali Özgenturk
Film-maker in Times of Strife: A Journey into Self
Nostalgia for True Love
Tayfun Pirselimoğlu
New Voices Raising Old Concerns
Portraits from the Periphery
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Taboos Can Also Be Broken
The Journey of Unlikely Souls
Who am I?
Pandora’s Box
Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki
Whose is the Gaze?
