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This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the cinema of Iran. The book is organised around eight broad themes including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender, and genre. Encompassing a diverse range of methodological approaches and disciplinary frameworks including film studies, cultural studies, and...

Being captured by the dragnet of sexual sin is hardly the expectation of any young woman, but certainly not the King's daughter. Tamar's story of incest and betrayal is detailed in 2 Samuel Chapter 13. It began with a bloodline and family history of perversion and moral decline. David's adultery and violence against the house of Uriah was being judged by the visitation of his iniquity upon his children. One of his sons raped his daughter, the ...

Obedience 101 is an account of Michelle Langford's visitation with Jesus Christ on March 14, 2019. Her brief encounter drilled home the importance of "Obedience" in the life of the believer. She knew that what she learned was not being properly administered in the end time church. Her understanding of Christ's expectations from His body, the church, is shared in Obedience 101. Every believer needs to understand what is clearly written in the s...

Iranian filmmakers have long been recognised for creating a vibrant, aesthetically rich cinema whilst working under strict state censorship regulations. As Michelle Langford reveals, many have found indirect, allegorical ways of expressing forbidden topics and issues in their films. But for many, allegory is much more than a foil against haphazardly applied censorship rules. Drawing on a long history of allegorical expression in Persian poetry...

Werner Schroeter is one of the most influential directors of the New German cinema. This book, drawing upon such theorists as Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, seeks to unravel the labyrinth of signs and images threading throughout Schroeter's films. It analyses his use of allegorical montage, cinematic tableaux and gestures.

Explores allegory in Iranian cinema, explaining how it has emerged from deep cultural traditions and how it functions as a strategy for ideological resistance to state control.

Explores a range of compelling and sometimes surprising German films. This title includes a treatment of the sports film that identifies a close interrelationship between sports, commerce, cinema, and politics from the 1920s onwards. It also features some lesser-studied genres, including musicals, crime films, experimental films, and westerns.

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