Table of Contents

Introduction   Part I: Theoretical Framework  Chapter 1: Making Sense of Globalization  Chapter 2: The Concept of National Cinema: Theorization and Critique    Part II: Iranian Cinema and Globalization Chapter 3: Iranian Cinema in the World Cinema Circuit: Politics, Economics and Aesthetics  Chapter 4: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s ‘Transnational’ Cinema and Globalization  Chapter 5: Daryush Mehrjui’s ‘National’ Cinema and Globalization  Chapter 6: Ebrahim Hatami-kia’s ‘Sacred Defense’ Cinema and Globalization    Conclusion 

About the Author

Shahab Esfandiary is a part-time lecturer at Department of Cultural Studies at University of Nottingham.

Reviews

'Manages to show that cinema allows the global to appear even in the most rarefied local filmmaking practices' 
*Film Criticism*