Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Iran -- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad -- The Hidden Half -- Bahram Beyza'i -- The Other Side of the Story -- Abolfazl Jalili -- Treading the Thin Line: Fiction as Documentary -- Mahmud Kalari -- Valuable Lessons of Camera -- Abbas Kiarostami -- Life and Nothing But… -- Reality Without Interruption -- Majid Majidi -- Refugees in Love and Life -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf -- Portrait of the Revolutionary as an Artist: Take One/ Take Two -- Dariush Mehrjui -- From Social Realism to Dramas of the Interior -- Tahmineh Milani -- The Real Identity of Women -- Jafar Panahi -- A Place of their Own -- Turkey -- Erden Kıral -- Exile's Return -- Ali Özgentürk -- Filmmaker in Times of Strife: A Journey into Self -- Tayfun Pirselimoglu -- New Voices Raising Old Concerns -- Yes,im Ustaoglu -- Taboos Can Also Be Broken -- Atıf Yılmaz -- Whose is the Gaze? -- Kazakhstan -- Ardak Amirkulov and Ermek Shinarbaev -- Being Young in Almaty -- Serik Aprimov -- The Last Stop is Aksuat -- Rachid Nugmanov -- The Wild East, Rockers, Bikers and a New Life -- Kyrgyzstan -- Chingiz Aitmatov -- The Equivocal Marriage of Literature and Cinema -- Aktan Abdikalikov -- The Most Successful Kyrgyz Filmmaker -- Ernest Abdizhaparov -- Minimalist World -- Gennady Bazarov -- A Culture to Share with the Young -- Tolomush Okeev -- Searching for Lost Identity -- Tajikistan -- Tachir Mukharovich Sabirov -- More than a Generation Gap -- Turkmenistan -- Halmammet Kakabaev -- Human Values in a World in Transition -- Uzbekistan -- Zulfikar Mussakov -- Comedy in the Absence of Hope and Laughter -- Yusuf Razikov -- Unfair Battle of the Sexes -- Filmography.

An original collection of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent the trends in the film industries of their respective countries. Preceding the interviews, the author provides an introduction delineating historical information regarding the film industries of the countries included in the book.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.