Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

(2.5-3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

While Post-Revolutionary Iran continues to be viewed with political suspicion in the west, the output of the national film industry has, since the 1990s, been critically celebrated and achieved significant success in film festivals and through international awards. The very unique aesthetic and political circumstances that have led to this highly successful and original national cinema will be examined in this module by looking at the work of individual Auteurs and by placing the films within a wider socio-political, economic and religious context. Students will become familiar with a recent history of Iranian filmmaking, with Iran's unique tradition of representation, this cinemas confrontations with questions of realism, and with how these representations are affected by censorship.