Tuesday, 4th Nov

Centre for Film Studies Speaker Series

Dr Maryam Ghorbankarimi

(University of St Andrews)

“Women Behind the Camera: An Institutional History of Iranian Cinema”

University of St Andrews, Arts Lecture Theatre, 17.15-19.00

This paper explores the development of different independent institutions alongside the mainstream cinema that have aided in the revival of Iranian cinema and the increase in the number of female directors after the revolution.

Coming up 11^th November: Visiting Filmmaker Nishtha Jain and a screening of her film, Gulabi Gang (2012)

For further information and updates, please visit our events page at:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/events/upcoming/

Dr Leshu Torchin
Director of the Centre for Film Studies
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Department of Film Studies
University of St Andrews
101a North Street
St Andrews, UK
KY16 9AD
Tel: 44 (0) 1334 467 476

Books:

Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, November 2012) <http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness>

Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film Festivals and Activism (ed. Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin, St Andrews Film Studies, 2012) http://stafs.org/books/film-festival-yearbook-4/>

Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (with William Brown and Dina Iordanova, St Andrews Film Studies, 2010)<http://stafs.org/books/moving-people-moving-images/>

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