Iranian Cinema, A Scholar's Perspective

Date
Wed October 1st 2008, 6:00pm
Event Sponsor
Iranian Studies Program
Location
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113
Iranian Cinema, A Scholar's Perspective
Speaker(s):
Hamid Naficy

Hamid Naficy (Ph.D. 1990, UCLA) joins Northwestern as the John Evans Chair of Communications in the department of Radio/TV/Film. Professor Naficy also holds a joint appointment in the the Department of Art History. At UCLA, he received an MFA in film and television production and a Ph.D. in critical studies in film and television. He is an authority on exilic and diasporic cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas.