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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

A Note on Transliteration and Style

Introduction- Richard Tapper

Islamizing Film Culture in Iran: A Post-Khatami Update- Hamid Naficy

Classic Tools, Original Goals: Cinema and Public Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–97)- Agnès Devictor

The Crisis in the Iranian Film Industry and the Role of Government- Hossein Ghazian

Perspectives on Recent (International Acclaim for) Iranian Cinema- Azadeh Farahmand

Politics and Cinema in Post-revolutionary Iran: An Uneasy Relationship- Ali Reza Haghighi

Dead Certainties: The Early Makhmalbaf- Hamid Dabashi

A Ghost in the Machine: The Cinema of the Iranian Sacred Defence- Roxanne Varzi

Negotiating the Politics of Gender in Iran: An Ethnography of a Documentary- Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Location (Physical Space) and Cultural Identity in Iranian Films- Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

Chaste Dolls and Unchaste Dolls: Women in Iranian Cinema since 1979- Shahla Lahiji

Children in Contemporary Iranian Cinema: When we were Children- Hamid Reza Sadr

Marking Gender and Difference in the Myth of the Nation: A Post-revolutionary Iranian Film- Nasrin Rahimieh

Afterword- Laura Mulvey

Filmography

Index of Films

General Index