Allegory in Iranian Cinema
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19425-0 (ISBN)
As well as tracing the roots of allegory in Iranian cinema before and after the 1979 revolution, Langford also theorizes this cinematic mode. She draws on a range of cinematic, philosophical and cultural concepts - developed by thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Christian Metz and Vivian Sobchack - to provide a theoretical framework for detailed analyses of films by renowned directors of the pre-and post-revolutionary eras including Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Ebrahim Golestan, Kamran Shirdel, Majid Majidi, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Meshkini, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Asghar Farhadi.
Allegory in Iranian Cinema explains how a centuries-old means of expression, interpretation, encoding and decoding becomes, in the hands of Iran’s most skilled cineastes, a powerful tool with which to critique and challenge social and cultural norms.
Michelle Langford is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her research spans the cinemas of Iran and Germany. She is author of Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter (2006) and the editor of The Directory of World Cinema: Germany (2012, 2013). Her work on Iranian cinema has appeared in leading film studies journals including Camera Obscura, Screen and Screening the Past.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction – Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance
1 Locating Allegory in Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
2 The Allegorical Children of Iranian Cinema
3 Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman
4 Allegories of Love: The Cinematic Ghazal
5 Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Iranian War Cinema
6 Between Laughter and Mourning: About Elly as Trauerspiel of a Generation
Coda: Allegory Spills into the Streets
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 61 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 417 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-19425-5 / 1350194255 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-19425-0 / 9781350194250 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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