Articles and Essays
This section of the Firouzan Films Website was created to accommodate long-form articles and essays that cover a variety of topics including Iranian cinema history, film theory, and director biographies.
The date of posting listed with each entry represents the date that the article was first listed on the Firouzan Films Website. This date is not necessarily the same date as the original publishing of the article.
Iran's directors fighting tighter measures on showing films abroad
By Fereshteh Modarresi, Posted November 15, 2009
Back in Cannes spotlight, crisis for Iranian cinema
By Fereshteh Modarresi, Posted November 15, 2009
"Life Is Color!" Toward a Transnational Feminist Analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Gabbeh"
By Negar Mottahedeh, Posted February 15, 2009
10 x Ten: Kiarostami's Journey
By Ed Hayes, Posted April 12, 2007
Poetry and Sufism
By Godfrey Cheshire, Posted April 12, 2007
Women of Iranian Popular Cinema: Projection of Progress
By Najmeh Khalili Mahani, Posted February 9, 2007
Bahram Beyzaie, An Unknown Master of Iranian Cinema
By Najmeh Khalili Mahani, Posted January 11, 2007
Criterion Collection Essay: Taste of Cherry
By Godfrey Chesire, Posted January 11, 2007
Iranian New Wave
By Jeffrey M. Anderson, Posted January 11, 2007
Iranian Cinema: Before the Revolution
By Shahin Parhami, Posted January 10, 2007
The Iranian Cinema
By Godfrey Chesire, Posted January 9, 2007
Fill In The Blanks
By Jonathan Rosenbaum, Posted January 2, 2007
Iranian Cinema: Art, Society and the State
By Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Posted January 2, 2007
Forough Farrokhzad and The House is Black
By Jason Price, Posted December 13, 2006
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