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Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?
Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy
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When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema—and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated scholar Hamid Dabashi offers a new way of looking at Kiarostami's artworld, one that questions the very idea of film philosophy. Dabashi's authoritative account of the philosophical resonances of Kiarostami's oeuvre offers an iconoclastic critique of the field's Eurocentrism and, in vivid prose, makes the case for a new method of appreciating the work of this essential figure. The result is a provocative perspective on the totality of Kiarostami's legacy that, with deep roots in Iranian aesthetic and Persian poetic and philosophical traditions, overcomes film's provincial preoccupation with its Western heritage and charts a new path forward for film-philosophy.
About the Author:
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, among them Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema and The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West.
Press Reviews:
"Dabashi is sui generis: there is no other scholar like him in the study of Iranian cinema or Persian literature."—Shaj Mathew, Trinity University
See the publisher website: University of California Press
See the complete filmography of Abbas Kiarostami on the website: IMDB ...
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