with Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Michelle Langford,  Zahra Khosroshahi, Laudan Nooshin, Lindsey Moore, Kaveh Abbasian, Max Bledstein, and Matthias Wittmann

The book is organised around eight broad themes including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender, and genre. Encompassing a diverse range of methodological approaches and disciplinary frameworks including film studies, cultural studies, and political economy, each chapter is a self-contained study on a specific topic engaging with the national and transnational history of Iranian cinema which combined provide readers with original new insights into Iranian film and filmmakers, from fiction films to art house and popular cinema. The Handbook includes analysis of the works of established filmmakers such as Bahram Beyzaie, Rakhshan Banetemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, as well as the output of emerging voices such as Ida Panahandeh and Shahram Mokri. Covering well-known topics as well as cutting edge ones such the sonic and visual manifestations of the urban environment in Iranian films, this book is a vital resource for understanding Iran and its unique cinematic culture.

About the speakers:

• Michelle Langford is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia
• Maryam Ghorbankarimi is Senior Lecturer of Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK
• Zahra Khosroshahi is Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Laudan Nooshin is Professor of Music at City St George’s, University of London, UK
• Kaveh Abbasian is a filmmaker and Lecturer in Film and Media Practice at the University of Kent, UK
• Max Bledstein is Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Dublin
• Lindsey Moore is Reader in Postcolonial Literatures at Lancaster University, UK
• Matthias Wittmann is a researcher, curator, writer, and currently lecturer in the field of film studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz