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"This Handbook includes new scholarship on the cinema of Iran. Chapters engage with the national and transnational history of Iranian cinema and cover a range of themes and concerns including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender and genre. Contributors approach Iranian cinema via a range of disciplinary frameworks including Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Religion and Politics. Filmmakers discussed include: Bahram Beyzaie, Rakhshan Banetemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ida Panahandeh, Shahram Mokri, Marva Nabili and Ebrahim Golestan"--