Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-285) and index ("filmography": pages 292-293).
Film of the year: About Elly -- Independent cinema and censorship in Iran : interview with Jafar Panahi -- Directors -- The emergence of cinema in Iran -- Film Farsi as the mainstream cinema -- The forerunners of the new wave cinema in Iran -- Iranian new wave (1969-79) -- Melodrama in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema -- Post revolutionary art cinema in Iran -- The image of war in Iranian cinema -- The image of children -- Cultural diversity in Iranian cinema.