Week 20: Iranian and World Cinema
Iranian and World Cinema
Zendegi Edame Darad / Life and Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami, The Institute for the
Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults, Iran, 1991, 108m, col)
Borom Sarret (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1964, 20m, b/w)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud / Marjane Satrapi, 2.4.7 Films / Sony Pictures Classics,
France/USA, 2007, 96m, b/w/col)
Colonialism:
“The control of one nation by „transplanted‟ people of another nation — often a geographically
distant nation that has a different culture and dominant racial or ethnic group.” (The American
Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company,
2005. 06 May. 2009. .)
Neocolonialism
"The dominance of strong nations over weak nations, not by direct political control (as in
traditional colonialism), but
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