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The class, we will recall, does have an investment in east asian cinema - again the two questions that come in with that term are:

1) is there the possibility of actually defining a national cinema
2) there seems to be an acknowledgement that there is a national cinema just at the time when it becomes deeply problematized (when you should  not or cannot actually identify a national cinema)

and the rest of it ... lots of notes of semi random stuff )
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Today we had guest speakers in our film class - half a dozen Iranian directors, writers and an actor.  I now live in a city where people from all around the world just appear because the film industry is actually, you know, um, here.

They were brought into the country by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (yeah, they're the Oscars people), for "Up Close & Personal: Iranian Filmmakers in Their Own Words"

The talk started with the acknowledgment that some of the directors weren't there because they were not allowed out of their own country by the government )

things I didn't know about Iranian film )

Really interesting day though

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