Two genuine and very educated scholars. and fine human beings, who thought several generations of filmmakers during their lifetime. Iranian cinema owes a great deal to these two scholars.
About 'Parviz Shafa'
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- Parviz Shafa, writer, scholar and university professor was born in Mashhad, Iran. After high school he went to the United States to study film. After completing his studies at San Francisco State University, he went back to Iran and started teaching film at the School of Dramatic Arts in Tehran. At the same time, he began writing and translating numerous articles in different film journals, which has continued to the present time. He has written and translated countless articles, and several books including: Viva Mexico, Cinema of the Time, Guerrilla Cinema, Cinema in Africa, Fascism in Cinema....His latest translation books are Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, War is a force that gives us meaning and: Oliver Stone's America.
Parviz Shafa lived in the San Francisco Bay Area until he passed away on August 22, 2017. We will keep his Memory Alive.
Contact: saeedshafa@aol.com