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Alberto Elena
artistic tradition
Author_Alberto Elena
blending fiction and reality
career
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cinema history
cinematic mastery
collaboration
creative boldness
critical reception
cultural influences
death
documentaries
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features
film analysis
film director
graphic design
illustrator
international cinema
Iranian cinema
Iranian directors
isolation
meaning in life
Palme d'Or
Persian culture
post-revolutionary Iran
short films
solidarity
structural precision
women in cinema
world cinema
Product details
- ISBN 9780863565946
- Weight: 379g
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Abbas Kiarostami's films - Close-Up, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry (winner of the 1997 Palme d'Or at Cannes), and Ten - have taken their place alongside the masterworks of world cinema. Yet Kiarostami, the most influential filmmaker of post-revolutionary Iran, has produced a body of work that is as rooted in contemporary Iran as it is universal in appeal. Respected cinema historian Alberto Elena has used Iranian sources wherever possible and sought to frame Kiarostami's oeuvre within the context of the rich artistic and intellectual Persian tradition that has nourished the director. He examines his blending of fiction and reality, and his recurring themes of death, meaning in life, isolation, solidarity and the lives of women. Kiarostami's career, from his early days as an illustrator and graphic designer to his current master-status, is also explored - his adverts, short films, documentaries and features, as well as his collaborations, influences and critical reception both in Iran and internationally. The creative boldness of Kiarostami's work is matched by a structural precision that is virtually unparalleled in modern-day cinema. Elena's retrospective shows exactly how this most Iranian of directors has also come to assume a place in the pantheon of international cinema.
Alberto Elena teaches film history at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. The editor of Secuencias, Revista de Historia del Cine, he has organised various film retrospectives and participated as a member of the jury at different international film festivals. In addition to his contributions to numerous periodicals, his publications include Cine e Islam, Satyajit Ray, Ciencia, cine e historia: de Melies a 2001 and The Cinema of Latin America.
