[csaa-forum] Call for papers New Wave Iranian Cinema

[Sanaz Fotouhi]

Call For Papers New Wave Iranian Cinema
 full name / name of organization:
Persian Film Festival and Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics
contact email:
contribute at persianfilmfestival.com

*Iranian New Wave Cinema – Call for papers*

The Persian International Film Festival (http://www.persianfilmfestival.com)
and The Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics are proud to announce
a call out for articles for a special edition of The Journal for the Sydney
Society for Literature and Aesthetics on Iranian New Wave Cinema.
Guest editors are Dr. Omid Tofighian and festival co-director Sanaz Fotouhi.

Deadline for abstracts is *1st of July, 2012.*

In February 2012 Asghar Farhadi’s film “A Separation” won an Oscar in the
category of best foreign film. This event marked an important historical
moment in Iranian film, in particular, and Iranian art, in general.
However, Farhadi’s win was significant for a number of other reasons;
reasons which have profound social, cultural and political implications.
The scholarship produced to analyse post-revolutionary Iranian cinema is
compelling because it exposes the networks connecting so many facets of
Iranian life; it indicates the similarities and differences between the
issues affecting Iran and the issues affecting other cultures; and it
impacts interpretations and evaluations of contemporary Iran in intimate
and provocative ways. In addition, studies of Iranian films decode the
innovative and challenging techniques and methods used by Iranian
directors, producers and script writers to present stories and events from
Iran and the underlying meanings, messages and questions contained within.

The editors will accept articles and reviews that cover a diverse range of
topics on Iranian cinema, from various disciplines and using different
approaches and styles. Themes and topics that may be addressed include:
film history; cinema style and structure; the cinema industry in Iran;
state censorship, self-censorship and control of distribution; film
language; philosophy of cinema; cinema as social, cultural or political
critique; humanistic and apolitical film; cinema as historical
documentation; reality and documentary; exporting films – foreign
perception, international awareness and propaganda; risks and opportunities
in Iran; literary adaptations; allegory in Iranian cinema. We will also
consider papers and reviews on Iranian cinema in diaspora, which address
topics such as migration and settlement.

Please send your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio
and your affiliation to *contribute at persianfilmfestival.com *for
consideration, no later than *1st of July 2012. *Accepted papers should be
sent by *November 30th, 2012.*

*About the Special Edition:*

The special edition of The Journal for the Sydney Society for Literature
and Aesthetics will aim to be launched at The Second Persian International
Film Festival in 2013. The edition will also include images from films and
events and interviews with directors, actors and producers from Iran, as
well as a section dedicated to Junior Scholarship on the topic with
outstanding essays from younger scholars. The editors will aim to make this
journal an important resource in the study of Iranian cinema and Iranian
studies in general, in Australia and worldwide.
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