Ahmad Alasti

University of Tehran | UT · School of Dramatic Arts and Music

Iranian cinema is well-known in international movie festivals. A lot of internal and external researchers have conducted many researches about Iranian cinema and its filmmakers. Usually these researches are affected by cultural studies and have the same approach to content and meaning. This has become the reason that we have few researches about vi...

قاب بندي یکی از مباحثی اســت که در زیبایی شناســی تصویر داراي اهمیت فراوانی می باشد. اما علی رغم اهمیت این مبحث، تا کنون کمتر پژوهشی را درباره سینماي ایران می توان مشاهده نمود که به قاب بندي و جنبه هاي آن پرداخته باشد. این مقاله تلاش دارد تا با رویکردي توصیفی- تحلیلی، به زیبایی شناسی قاب بندي و ظرفیت هاي تصویرسازي آن بپردازد. از همین روي در گام اول...

Given that today the number of post-modern works in world’s cinema is growing and is unavoidable, addressing this issue to find common points between these works to achieve the general rules, gets necessary so that a structured path for making this kind of films becomes possible. In this paper, we introduce post-modern films which their narrative s...

This paper will focus on the importance of sound effects as a narrative element through a study of the audio channel of “Honey”, the latest movie of Semih Kaplanoğ lu. Due to the story and its main character, who has diffi culties with talking, Honey is full of silence and sound effects. In this poetic film, Semih Kaplanoğ lu enjoys a pristine and spect...

The present study addresses paradoxical genesis of violence out of discoursive challenge and/or argument and violence variants. The authors also quest after how development of theories and thoughts i.e. discourses gives birth to violence. Confrontation among dominant and marginalized discourses seemingly creates violence. In 1970’s US, oppressed an...

Since the dawn of Renaissance, visual composition has always been a major case of discussion in the visual arts. But when it comes to the art of cinema, it will not be exaggerating to call it an oppressed issue. Bordwell, Staiger & Thompson (1985) are among the scholars who cared about this issue and allocated a part of their book, The Classical Ho...

This paper examines one of the most recent theories regarding the physical shape of puppets and argues that a new system of thought has emerged in puppet fi lms in which the concepts of beauty and ugliness have undergone a dramatic transformation. This system of thought, originating in the ‘Orientalism’ theory of Edward Said and his postmodernist co...

The unexpected resurgence of stop-motion animated feature films from the year 2000 onward has experienced a paradoxical edge. On one hand, the belief that stop-motion animated films are suitable strictly for children has been challenged. On the other hand, the novel sensitivities of postmodernism have elevated these supposedly kids’ stuff to the level...

One of the focal points in film narration is focusing on narrator as the main carrier of the drama. Yet the fl exibility of the principles of classic cinema which determine the dramatic position of the narrator permits no possibility of transferring the point of view. Accordingly, the narrator remains unchangeable forever. But when we look at the las...

Most of the critics of “A Separation” express its strong and coherent screenplay with a well-built dramatic structure as the most significant and fundamental strength point of the film. Comments of these critics with the above mentioned approach definitely had an impact on its Academy Award nomination. With a glance and reference to the writings of th...

In this paper, the essence of the “Point of View” theory is studied with regard to creating the sense of exchanging of points of view between inanimate objects, or non-humans, and that of human beings based on Edward Branigan’s theories. It is the ability of Film camera which makes it possible to replace the human point of view with that of a non-h...

In this study the camera movement in the film, “The Shining,” directed by Kubrick, will be psychologically evaluated by analytical-descriptive methods. In this film, Jack Torrance, along with his family, will be severed from society for a period of five months. Jack Torrance is going through a mid-life crisis. By using camera movement, Kubrick draws a...

In 1990, individuals such as Fredric Jameson, Peter Wollen, and Jean Baudrillard used the word “postmodern” regarding movies. In 1992, the film Once Upon a Time, Cinema was directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. This article studies the elements of postmodern cinema in the cited film and tries to explore the probable incentives for an Iranian filmmaker to mak...

This Research, Entitled Study of Wuxia as an Aesthetic and Economic Phenomenon in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, examines the success of Wuxia Films in world cinema after 2000. This Genre since 1920s till now is working and faced with too many troubles in these years. Wuxia is derived from the Chinese words wu denoting militaristic or martial qualiti...

Through close scrutiny of the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's 1924 film, Battleship Potemkin, this article argues that the rhythmic editing of the film demands accompanying music based on the same rhythmic system. Since Eisenstein had a musical structure in mind for the editing of this sequence, composers of film music tasked themselve...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 1984. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references. Typescript (photocopy).