Film Studies 270 - Tpc: Love&Fam/Iranian Cinema

Spring
2014
02
4.00
Victoria Gardner
TTH 01:15PM-02:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
87232
Daniel L. Jones CDC 111
vgardner@mtholyoke.edu
87544,87232,87543
'This course focuses on cinema from Iran after the revolution in 1979 which brought the current Islamic Republic into being. We look at how this cinema, especially from the last twenty years, approaches and questions family relationships and the love upon which they are generally understood to be based, drawing upon Shi'i and broader Islamic conceptions of appropriate social and gender roles. Students acquire familiarity with ideas of family in contemporary Iran as well as the major directors and actors in contemporary Iranian film.'
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.