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A Social History of Cinema in Iran

A talk by Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University

Monday, October 24, 2011
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 

Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, where he also has an appointment with the Department of Art History.  He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. Naficy has published extensively on these and allied topics.  His English language books are: An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking; Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place; The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles; Otherness and the Media: the Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged (co-edited); and Iran Media Index.  His latest work is the four-volume book A Social History of Iranian Cinema.   He has also published extensively in Persian, including a two-volume book on the documentary cinema theory and history, Film-e Mostanad. He has lectured widely internationally and his works have been cited and reprinted extensively and translated into many languages.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero
Tel: (310) 825-1455
romero@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes