Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297).
Contents
On modernity and the making of a national cinema -- The making of an Iranian filmmaker: Abbas Kiarostami -- The sight of the invisible world: the cinema of Bahram Beiza'i -- Bahman Farmanara: twice upon a time -- Once upon a filmmaker: conversation with Mohsen Makhmalbaf -- In the speculum of the other: the feminine figure of modernity -- Whither Iranian cinema? The perils and promises of globalization.