[ecrea] Call for papers New Wave Iranian Cinema

Call For Papers New Wave Iranian Cinema
full name / name of organization:
Persian Film Festival and Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics
contact email:
(contribute /at/ persianfilmfestival.com) 
<mailto:(contribute /at/ persianfilmfestival.com)>

*Iranian New Wave Cinema – Call for papers*

The Persian International Film Festival 
(http://www.persianfilmfestival.com) and The Sydney Society for 
Literature and Aesthetics are proud to announce a call out for articles 
for a special edition of The Journal for the Sydney Society for 
Literature and Aesthetics on Iranian New Wave Cinema.
Guest editors are Dr. Omid Tofighian and festival co-director Sanaz Fotouhi.

Deadline for abstracts is *1st of July, 2012.*

In February 2012 Asghar Farhadi’s film “A Separation” won an Oscar in 
the category of best foreign film. This event marked an important 
historical moment in Iranian film, in particular, and Iranian art, in 
general. However, Farhadi’s win was significant for a number of other 
reasons; reasons which have profound social, cultural and political 
implications. The scholarship produced to analyse post-revolutionary 
Iranian cinema is compelling because it exposes the networks connecting 
so many facets of Iranian life; it indicates the similarities and 
differences between the issues affecting Iran and the issues affecting 
other cultures; and it impacts interpretations and evaluations of 
contemporary Iran in intimate and provocative ways. In addition, studies 
of Iranian films decode the innovative and challenging techniques and 
methods used by Iranian directors, producers and script writers to 
present stories and events from Iran and the underlying meanings, 
messages and questions contained within.

The editors will accept articles and reviews that cover a diverse range 
of topics on Iranian cinema, from various disciplines and using 
different approaches and styles. Themes and topics that may be addressed 
include: film history; cinema style and structure; the cinema industry 
in Iran; state censorship, self-censorship and control of distribution; 
film language; philosophy of cinema; cinema as social, cultural or 
political critique; humanistic and apolitical film; cinema as historical 
documentation; reality and documentary; exporting films – foreign 
perception, international awareness and propaganda; risks and 
opportunities in Iran; literary adaptations; allegory in Iranian cinema. 
We will also consider papers and reviews on Iranian cinema in diaspora, 
which address topics such as migration and settlement.

Please send your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short 
bio and your affiliation to *(contribute /at/ persianfilmfestival.com) 
<mailto:(contribute /at/ persianfilmfestival.com)> *for consideration, no later 
than *1st of July 2012. *Accepted papers should be sent by *November 
30th, 2012.*

*About the Special Edition:*

The special edition of The Journal for the Sydney Society for Literature 
and Aesthetics will aim to be launched at The Second Persian 
International Film Festival in 2013. The edition will also include 
images from films and events and interviews with directors, actors and 
producers from Iran, as well as a section dedicated to Junior 
Scholarship on the topic with outstanding essays from younger scholars. 
The editors will aim to make this journal an important resource in the 
study of Iranian cinema and Iranian studies in general, in Australia and 
worldwide.