ReFocus : : The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad / / Maryam Ghorbankarimi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Ghorbankarimi, Maryam,
• MitwirkendeR: Abdi, Bahar,; Bagheri, Asal,; Ghorbankarimi, Maryam,; Han, Yunzi,; Holman, Rosa,; Khamsy, Nina,; Khansalar, Fatemeh-Mehr,; Khosroshahi, Zahra,; Langford, Michelle,; Nooshin, Laudan,; Wittmann, Matthias,; Zahedi, Farshad,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations

Offers the first English language book on the films and the career of Iranian director Rakhshan BanietemadDevotes specific attention to Banietemad’s long career in documentary filmmaking, which has been neglected in much of the scholarly works thus farIncludes chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema as well as younger scholars with fresh points of viewSituates Banietemad among world auteurs while still looking at her works within the Iranian contextIncludes an in-depth interview with the directorRakhshan Banietemad is one of the first female film directors in Iran. This book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the book devotes special attention to Banietemad’s understudied documentaries and films, including Under the Skin of the City (2000) and Tales (2014), while offering new perspectives on well-known works such as The Blue Veiled (1994) and The May Lady (1997). Focusing on questions of aesthetics and poetics, social realism, gender dynamics and the ‘afterimages’ and ‘counter-memories’ of revolution and war, the book also includes an in depth interview with Banietemad herself.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Transliteration and Style -- Part I Introduction -- An Overview of Banietemad’s Career and Films -- A Conversation with the Director -- Part II Aesthetics, Politics, and Narrative Structure -- 1. From Black Comedies to Social Realism: Rakhshan Banietemad’s Early Feature Films -- 2. Under the Skin of Society: Rakhshan Banietemad’s Social History of Post-revolutionary Iran -- 3. Tales and the Cinematic Divan of Rakhshan Banietemad -- 4. The Artistic and Political Implications of the Meta-cinematic in Rakhshan Banietemad’s Films -- Part III Gender, Love, and Sexuality -- 5. “Modes of Expression not Subject to the Law of Male Desire”: Considering the Role of Voice-over and Enunciation in the Work of Rakhshan Banietemad -- 6. Affective Listening, Sonic Intimacy, and the Power of Quiet Voices in Rakhshan Banietemad’s The May Lady: Towards a Cinema of Empathy -- 7. The Blue-veiled: A Semiological Analysis of a Social Love Story -- 8. Masculinities in Banietemad’s Tales: Reshuffling Gender Dynamics under Socio-economic Pressures -- 9. Representing Sexuality on Screen in Walled Societies: A Comparative Analysis of Iranian Film (The May Lady) and Chinese Film (Army Nurse) -- Part IV Fact, Fiction, and Society -- 10. Rakhshan Banietemad’s Art of Social Realism: Bridging Realism and Fiction -- 11. Embracing All My Trees: An Ecocritical Reading -- 12. Hidden Transcripts of Subordinates and the Art of Resistance in Our Times -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index