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Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

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Description for Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema Paperback. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, in order to conform with the Islamic Republic's system of modesty, Iran's film industry was required to ensure that Iranian women who appeared were veiled from the view of men. This work shows that post-Revolutionary filmmakers were forced to create a visual language for conveying meaning to audiences. Num Pages: 216 pages, 123 illustrations (28 sequences). BIC Classification: 1FBN; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran’s film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic’s system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men. This prevented Iranian filmmakers from making use of the desiring gaze, a staple cinematic system of looking. In Displaced Allegories Negar Mottahedeh shows that post-Revolutionary Iranian filmmakers were forced to create a new visual language for conveying meaning to audiences. She argues that the Iranian film industry found creative ground not in the negation of government regulations but in the camera’s adoption of the modest, averted gaze. In the process, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822342755
SKU
V9780822342755
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About Negar Mottahedeh
Negar Mottahedeh is Assistant Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Duke University.

Reviews for Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
“Displaced Allegories is a compelling and provocative book. With a remarkable talent for closely reading and analyzing films, Negar Mottahedeh examines some of the most important films produced in post-Revolutionary Iran. She offers a multilayered analysis of the tension between continuity and change, transgression and submission, and compliance and resistance inherent in the films.”—Farzaneh Milani, author of Veils and Words: ... Read more

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