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Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema

By Hamid Dabashi

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Bahram Beiza'i's "Bashu: The Little Stranger" (1989)

"There is an uncanny resemblance between Kiarostami’s documentary and Hamid Dabashi’s dazzling new book, Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema. Dabashi’s book is a masterclass on Iranian cinema, guiding the reader on an equally labyrinthine journey which takes us behind the scenes of twelve films by Iranian directors. Each chapter is focused on a single film, to which Dabashi brings a highly original and eclectic style of criticism, drawing on formal film analysis, scholarship on contemporary Iranian history, Persian poetry and prose, and autobiography."

(From Farouk Mitha's review of Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema. For the full review see: www.arabmediasociety.com).