Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

by Negar Mottahedeh

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran's film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic's system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men. This prevented Iranian filmmakers from making use of the desiring gaze, a staple cinematic system of looking. In Displaced Allegories Negar Mottahedeh shows that post-Revolutionary Iranian filmmakers were forced to create a new visual language for conveying meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342758
• ISBN13: 9780822342755
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"