{"product_id":"displaced-allegories-9780822342755","title":"Displaced Allegories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the 1979 Iranian Revolution, in order to conform with the Islamic Republic's system of modesty, Iran's film industry was required to ensure that Iranian women who appeared were veiled from the view of men. This work shows that post-Revolutionary filmmakers were forced to create a visual language for conveying meaning to audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDisplaced Allegories\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and provocative book. With a remarkable talent for closely reading and analyzing films, Negar Mottahedeh examines some of the most important films produced in post-Revolutionary Iran. She offers a multilayered analysis of the tension between continuity and change, transgression and submission, and compliance and resistance inherent in the films.”—\u003cb\u003eFarzaneh Milani\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eVeils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDisplaced Allegories\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely timely book. Negar Mottahedeh treats the issues of nation-building and the veiling of women together, demonstrating the various ways they are co-implicated in Iranian films. Questions of feminine sexuality and desire are shown to have a national-political purchase in Mottahedeh’s analysis. This not only produces more complex interpretations of the films than a focus on just one issue or the other would have allowed; it also ‘updates’ the still important but by now slightly tired feminist concerns that have motivated a significant strand of film theory since the mid-1970s.”—\u003cb\u003eJoan Copjec\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eImagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Finally, a book about post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema that is not another general or political history of that cinema but an innovative, sustained, and rigorous analysis of it using film theory. \u003ci\u003eDisplaced Allegories\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original work.”—\u003cb\u003eHamid Naficy\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Producing a National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Nationalizing Sense Perception: Bahram Bayza'i 15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cleansing Vision: Abbas Kiarostami, \u003ci\u003eLe Secret Magnifique\u003c\/i\u003e 89\u003cbr\u003e 3. Negative Aesthetics: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema and 1970s Feminist Film Theory 140\u003cbr\u003e Notes 169\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 183\u003cbr\u003e Index 193","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406052303191,"sku":"9780822342755","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/displaced-allegories-9780822342755","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}