Books by Ehsan Khoshbakht

AS AUTHOR/EDITOR

2024

The Lady with the Torch: Columbia Pictures, 1929-1959, edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht, Les éditions de l’oeil, August 2024


2023

Asghar Farhadi: Interviews, edited by Drew Todd and Ehsan Khoshbakht, featuring an interview by Ehsan Khoshbakht, University Press of Mississippi, January 2023

AS AUTHOR (in Persian)

Sky Belongs to Us: European Films and Filmmakers (آسمان از آن ماست: فیلمها و فیلمسازان اروپایی), Baztaab Negar Press, March 2023




2021

Playing the Camera: "Music Films" from Bach to Bob Dylan (نواختن با دوربین: فیلم های موسیقی از باخ تا باب دیلن), Kasra Publishing, April 2021


The Age of Innocence: American Cinema's Studio Era Revisited (عصر معصومیت: بازخوانی سینمای استودیویی آمریکا), Baztaab Negar Press, April 2021



2014

The Art of Movie Posters (هنر پوسترهاي سينمايي), Kasra, 2014

The Westerns (Sinamaye Western - سينماي وسترن), Rawzanekar, 2014

2009
Celluloid Architecture (Me'mari-ye Celluloid - معماري سلولويد), Kasra, 2009





AS CONTRIBUTOR OR CO-EDITOR

2024

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader (Hat & Beard Press, May 2024) | My conversation with Rosenbaum about jazz and cinema republished here




2022

Chess of the Wind (edited by Amir Hossein Siadat & Sahar Khoshnam, Saless Press, March 2022) | I have an essay on restoring the 1976 Iranian film which has given the book it's title




2019


Tehran Noir, a chapter on Samuel Khachikian (Film Noir Foundation, January 2019)

Assistant editor (edited by Drew Todd), University of Mississippi Press, June 2019

2017

Two essays published on Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 (edited by Parviz Jahed), Intellect 201


2015



British Cinema in Iran: A Brief History in Didgah: New perspectives on UK-Iran Cultural Relations (edited by Nick Wadham-Smith and Danny Whitehead), British Council, 2015


Rahnamay-e Genre (A Guide to 10 Movie Genres), ed. Yahya Natanzi, Chechmeh Press. (I have contributed two chapters to this book, one on film noir directors and the other on western filmmakers.)

2011

The Encyclopedia of Film Directors (Danesh-nameye Sinamai: kargardanan - دانشنامۀ سينمايي: كارگردانان), ed. Behzad Rahimian, Rawzanekar,2011
I wrote more than 70 entries for this first encyclopedia of film directors in Persian.



AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (MAGAZINE)

2017-2019









as editor-in-chief, limited print + digital arts quarterly published by British Council


2008

Guest editor. Special Vertigo issue of Honar [Art] Monthly, 2008


FESTIVAL CATALOGUES


2016

Golestan Film Studio, Between Poetry and Politics (Published by Cineteca di Bologna/Il Cinema Ritrovato)