Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, among them Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema and The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Where Is Abbas Kiarostami? 1. Mirror of the Invisible World 2. Aesthetic Alienation 3. Between Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic Reasons 4. The Foreign Familiarity of Rereading Reality 5. Toward a Critique of Postcolonial Aesthetic Judgment 6. Surfacing of a Semblance of Subjectivity 7. The Aesthetic Formation of a Nomadic Pilgrim Subject Conclusion: When the Earth Is Shaken and People Wonder Why Notes Filmography and Selected Works Index

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, among them Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema and The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Where Is Abbas Kiarostami? 1. Mirror of the Invisible World 2. Aesthetic Alienation 3. Between Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic Reasons 4. The Foreign Familiarity of Rereading Reality 5. Toward a Critique of Postcolonial Aesthetic Judgment 6. Surfacing of a Semblance of Subjectivity 7. The Aesthetic Formation of a Nomadic Pilgrim Subject Conclusion: When the Earth Is Shaken and People Wonder Why Notes Filmography and Selected Works Index

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, among them Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema and The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Where Is Abbas Kiarostami? 1. Mirror of the Invisible World 2. Aesthetic Alienation 3. Between Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic Reasons 4. The Foreign Familiarity of Rereading Reality 5. Toward a Critique of Postcolonial Aesthetic Judgment 6. Surfacing of a Semblance of Subjectivity 7. The Aesthetic Formation of a Nomadic Pilgrim Subject Conclusion: When the Earth Is Shaken and People Wonder Why Notes Filmography and Selected Works Index