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Mottahedeh asserts that, in response to the prohibitions against the desiring look, a new narrative cinema emerged as the displaced allegory of the constraints on the post-Revolutionary Iranian film industry. Allegorical commentary was not developed in the explicit content of cinematic narratives but through formal innovations. Offering close readings of the work of the nationally popular and internationally renowned Iranian auteurs Bahram Bayza'i, Abbas Kiarostami, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mottahedeh illuminates the formal codes and conventions of post-Revolutionary Iranian films. She insists that such analyses of cinema's visual codes and conventions are crucial to the study of international film. As Mottahedeh points out, the discipline of film studies has traditionally seen film as a medium that communicates globally because of its dependence on a (Hollywood) visual language assumed to be universal and legible across national boundaries. Displaced Allegories demonstrates that visual language is not necessarily universal; it is sometimes deeply informed by national culture and politics.
Author: Negar Mottahedeh
ISBN-10: 0822342758
ISBN-13: 9780822342755
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2008
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2009
Negar Mottahedeh is Assistant Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University.
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