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Trade ReviewKeenly aware of the collaboration between postcolonial cinemas and political movements, Atwood explores the Iranian film industry of the 1980s and 90s. Reform Cinema in Iran vividly reveals how Iranian films of that era and new digital technologies that captured them, participated in the definition of democracy, human rights, and civil society in Iran, thereby supplanting the revolutionary rhetoric of resistance and imperialism that had swept the nation a decade earlier. -- Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University From mysticism to music videos Blake Atwood's Reform Cinema in Iran gives us a comprehensive and alternative lens to understand recent Iranian film. It is an important book for students and lovers of Iranian cinema. -- Roxanne Varzi, University of California, Irvine In Reform Cinema in Iran, Atwood masterfully captures the complex and paradoxical relations between filmmaking and the desire for reconfigurations of the revolution's objectives. Particularly significant is his analysis of how film as a medium and new technologies of representation were instrumental in setting the terms of the reform movement. An important contribution to the study of Iranian cinema and contemporary Iran's cultural production. -- Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine Reform Cinema is not only an essential book for institutions that teach Iranian cinema, but also a very valuable source for those studying the reform movement's place in Iranian history. Film International
Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction: Revolutionary Cinema and the Logic of Reform 1. When Love Entered Cinema: Mysticism and the Emerging Poetics of Reform 2. Screening Reform: Campaign Movies, Documentaries, and Urban Tehran 3. Video Democracies: Or, The Death of the Filmmaker 4. Who Killed the Tough Guy? Continuity and Rupture in the Filmfarsi Tradition 5. Film Archives and Online Videos: The Search for Reform in Post-Khatami Iran Conclusion: Iran's Cinema Museum and Political Unrest Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
