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Rakshi Banietemad is one of the first female film directors in Iran. This book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the book devotes special attention to Banietemad's understudied documentaries and films, including
Under the Skin of the City (2000) and
Tales (2014), while offering new perspectives on well-known works such as
The Blue Veiled (1994) and
The May Lady (1997). Focusing on questions of aesthetics and poetics, social realism, gender dynamics and the 'afterimages' and 'counter-memories' of revolution and war, the book also includes an in depth interview with Banietemad herself.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
A Note on Transliteration and Style
Part I: Introduction
An Overview of Banietemad's Career and Films - Maryam Ghorbankarimi
A Conversation with the Director - Maryam Ghorbankarimi
Part II: Aesthetics, Politics and Narrative Structure
1. From Black Comedies to Social Realism: Rakhshan Banietemad's Early Feature Films - Farshad Zahedi
2. Under the Skin of Society: Rakhshan Banietemad's Social History of Post-Revolutionary Iran - Matthias Wittmann
3.
Tales and the Cinematic
Divan of Rakhshan Banietemad - Michelle Langford
4. The Artistic and Political Implications of the Meta-Cinematic in Rakhshan Banietemad's Films - Zahra Khosroshahi
Part III: Gender, Love and Sexuality
5. Modes of Expression not Subject to the Law of Male Desire: Considering the Role of Voice-Over and Enunciation in the work of Rakhshan Banietemad - Rosa Holman
6. Affective Listering, Sonic Intimacy and the Power of Quiet Voices in Rakhshan Banietemad's the May Lady: Towards a Cinema of Empathy - Laudan Nooshin
7. The Blue-Veiled: A semiological Analysis of a Social Love Story - Asal Bagheri
8. Masculinitties in Banietemad's Tales: Reshuffling Gender Dynamics Under Socioeconomic Pressures - Nina Khamsy
9. Representing Sexuality on Screen in Walled Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Iranian Film (The May Lady) and Chinese Film (Army Nurse) - Yunzi Han
Part IV: Fact, Fiction and Society
10. Rakhshan Banietemad's Art of Social Realism: Bridging Realism and Fiction - Maryam Ghorbankarimi
11. Embracing All My Trees: an Ecocritical Reading - Fatemeh-Mehr Khansalar
12. Hidden Transcripts of Subordinates and the Art of Resistance in Our Times - Bahar Abdi
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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dr Maryam Ghorbankarimi is Lecturer in Film Practice at the University of Lancaster.
