Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film 9
5. The Sound of Frogs at Night: Kiarostami’s Philosophy of Cinema 19
6. Sexuality and Cultural Change: The Presentation of Sex and Gender in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema 31
7. Kiarostami’s Cinematic Poetry in Where is the Friend’s Home? and The Wind will Carry Us 49
8. Which Half is Hidden? The Public or the Private: An Analysis of Milani’s The Hidden Half 63
9. Abbas Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal 77
10. Contemporary Liminal Encounters: Moving Beyond Traditional Plots in Majidi’s Bârân 103
11. Virtuous Heroines: A Mythical Reading of Female Protagonists in Contemporary Iranian Television Serials 117
12. Marziyeh Meshkini’s The Day I Became a Woman 135
13. Index 145