Educational Resources
ISBN: 9788183281782 / Hardcover, pp. 640
Dariush Mehrjui: The Times We’ve Lived Through
By: Noushabeh Amiri
Nooshabeh Amiri is a journalist with a degree in journalism and PhD in Sociology. She began her career in journalism in 1971 in Tehran where she also worked with children’s films as a dubbing artist, becaming Director of Dubbing for cinema and television. She has written film reviews and was an editor in the cinema magazine Gozaresh-e (Film Report) which closed down in 2002. Afterward she emigrated from Tehran to Paris where she writes on political, social and gender issues.
Documentary Cinema: A Voice Fading into the PastBy: Massound Mehrabi
Massoud Mehrabi is a film critic, historian and well-known caricaturist who graduated in Cinema from the College of Dramatic Arts, Tehran and did a Film Production Management Course from the Industrial Management Institute. He is one of the three founders of FILM Monthly, the oldest post-revolutionnary film magazine in Iran (founded in 1982 with Houshang Golmakani and Abbas Yari). In 1993, FILM Monthly is doubled by an international magazine, FILM International, the sole magazine in English about Iranian cinema. He is the author of eight books on cinema and written many articles about the history of Iranian cinema: http://www.massoudmehrabi.com/articles
The two articles above were first published in CINEMAYA, The Asian Film Quarterly, published between 1988 and 2004 with Aruna Vasudev as the Founder and Editor. The articles are republished in an important new publication, ASIAN FILM JOURNEYS, which presents a selection of articles from CINEMAYA that closely tracked the bold new film narrative of both the well-known and lesser-known cinemas as it unfolded. ASIAN FILM JOURNEYS is edited by Rashmi Doraiswamy and Latika Padgaonkar and dedicated to Aruna Vasudev.
- Those interested in purchasing a copy of the book ASIAN FILM JOURNEYS can contact
Jeannette Hereniko at jhereniko@AsiaPacificFilms.com for more information.
- Click here to download a bibliography “Further Reading on Iranian Cinema and Persian Culture” Compiled by Alissa Simon
- Click here to download a PDF of the Film Discussion guide for My Tehran for Sale.
- Click here to download a PDF of the Film Discussion guide for Those Three.
Discussion Guides were provided by The Global Film Initiative.
We welcome articles, interviews, curricula, bibliographies, filmographies, essays that relate to the themes, films and filmmakers that we are exploring on this site. If you are the author of educational resources that will assist faculty, students and the general public in Understanding Persian Culture through Film, we welcome your submission. Please send to jhereniko@AsiaPacificFilms.com along with your contact information.
