Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University. He is the author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, and (in Persian) Film-e Mostanad, a two-volume history of nonfiction cinema around the world. Naficy helped to launch ongoing annual Iranian film festivals in Los Angeles and Houston.

Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xv
Organization of the Volumes xxi
A Word about Illustrations xxvii
Abbreviations xxix
1. The Resurgence of Nonfiction Cinema: Postrevolutionary Documentaries and Fiction War Films 1
2. Under Cover, on Screen: Women's Representation and Women's Cinema 92
3. All Certainties Melt into Thin Air: Art-House Cinema, a "Postal" Cinema 175
4. Emergent Contestatory Films, Media Culture, and Public Diplomacy 269
5. Iranian, but with a Different Accent: A Cinema of Displacement or a Displaced Cinema? 369
Appendix A: Iranian Films in Distribution 513
Appendix B: Film House of Iran's Film Collection 515
Appendix C: International Film and Video Center Iranian Film Collection 520
Notes 523
Bibliography 559
Index 591