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Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new
mnemo-political perspective Establishes a new framework of
understanding the tensions between hegemonial and excluded
aesthetics and rhetorics, between censorship and resistance,
carving out resistant points of remembering within and outside
state-controlled cinema Exposes silenced experiences and suppressed
struggles that nevertheless articulate themselves in cinematic
forms Looks for ruptures, frictions and sudden re-distributions
within the trauma- and memoryscapes of Iranian Cinema Introduces
new readings of Iranian films and thus suggest a theory of trauma
and memory inspired by cinematic procedures and orientated towards
specific materials Far?d ad-D?n-e ?A???r's Persian folk tale The
Conference of the Birds relates the quest by thousands of pilgrim
birds for an ideal king, the mythical bird called S?morgh. At the
end of the quest, the surviving birds recognise that the longed-for
king is nothing other than the reflection of their own existence.
But what about those other birds that were not able to become part
of the final representation? This groundbreaking book calls them
'counter-memories'; memories that are barred from hegemonic
history, but are, nevertheless present in cinematic forms. Due to
the strategic and artistic interventions of a range of Iranian
filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Shahram Mokri, Ali Hatami
and Tahmineh Milani, Kianoush Ayari and Rakshan Banietemad, the
history of post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema is also structured by
counter-memories, with the potential to destabilise officially
fabricated success stories of revolution, war and sacred defence.
Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema establishes a new framework for
understanding the tensions between censorship and resistance,
helping to carve out resistant points of remembering both within
and outside state-controlled cinema.
General
Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Editors: |
Matthias Wittmann
• Ute Holl
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4744-7976-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4744-7976-6 |
Barcode: |
9781474479769 |
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