Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan

by Joan Copjec

A theoretical examination of veiling, shame, and modesty in the films of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami through the lenses of Islamic philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

In Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran, Joan Copjec examines the films of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The key to these films, she argues, lies in the image of a fragile yet sheltering tree that appears in several of his films. This simple...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262552396
• ISBN13: 9780262552394
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages