A colourful presence: the evolution of women's representation in Iranian cinema
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 252042664
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars
- ISBN
- 9781443882729
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is one of the first books that closely examines the role of women within Iranian cinema, making a timely and necessary contribution to the literature in the field. The research explores both films by the first female directors in Iran and a number of representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts. It includes a meticulous analysis of sixteen significant films, nine of which had never been studied before. The work uses textual analysis as its base methodology, discussing the films from a feminist perspective. Interviews conducted with filmmakers and people active in the industry also serve to place the films into their historical, social, and political context. The book has been included in university reading lists on Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas in the UK, Canada and Australia and the research has contributed to author’s latest book: ReFocus: The Works of Rakhshan Banietemad. The author has been invited to talk at a number of events and conferences drawing on this research that include: ‘The Art of Social Realism in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Films’, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES); ‘Crossing the line between Cinema and Television: discussing the safest career path for female filmmaker in Iran’, International Symposium on Gender, Media and the Middle East, University of East Anglia 2018; ‘Women Behind the Camera - An Institutional History of Iranian Cinema’, Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews 2016. The author was invited to speak on Women in Iranian Cinema as part of a six series of lectures plus film screening entitled ‘In the New Light’, organised by Berwick Educational Association, 2017, and was an invited commentator for Aparat, a film programme by BBC Persian, 2019.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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