10Jan 2018

IRANIAN CINEMA: PRE-REVOLUTION AND POST-REVELOUTION.

  • Department of Arts, School of Performing Arts and Music, College of Fine Arts, Tehran University.
  • PhD art research, NazarInstitute of Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Tehran.
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The Cinema of Iran or Cinema of Persia refers to the cinema and film industries in Iran which produce a variety of commercial films annually. Iranian art films have garnered international fame and now enjoy a global following. Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s. Some critics now rank Iran as the world's most important national cinema, artistically, with a significance that invites comparison to Italian neorealism and similar movements in past decades. A range of international film festivals have honored Iranian cinema in the last twenty years. World-renowned filmmakers along with many film critics from around the world, have praised Iranian cinema as one of the world's most important artistic cinemas.


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[Majid Sarsangi and Hamed Soleimanzadeh. (2018); IRANIAN CINEMA: PRE-REVOLUTION AND POST-REVELOUTION. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Jan). 641-646] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Majid Sarsangi
Department of Arts, School of Performing Arts and Music, College of Fine Arts, Tehran University

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/6268      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/6268