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Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre
Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)
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Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre
Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)
About this book
Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie's oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinema. Beyzaie's work reformulates indigenous artistic and ritual forms and cultural narratives in plays and films whose emancipatory aesthetics have influenced several generations of writers, playwrights, and filmmakers. This book examines the origins and development of what the author identifies as Beyzaie's unique sense of creativity, using an interdisciplinary method of semiotic and cultural analysis to identify its manifestations in Beyzaie's films and plays of the 1960s and 1970s. It focusses on Beyzaie's early works, such as Downpour and Uncle Moustache, and how they engage with neglected aspects of Iranian culture to challenge mainstream approaches to writing and directing plays and films. In this way, the author argues, Beyzaie's work questions notions of being and belonging, by subverting exclusionist discourses on art, politics, society, culture, self and other, personal and collective identity, gender relations, intellectuals, heroes and villains, and children.
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Yes, you can access Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre by Saeed Talajooy in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Middle Eastern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Bahram Beyzaie’s contour in time: Analysing the travels and travails of an artist to extract a theory of creativity
- 2 The Puppet Trilogy (1962–3): Deconstruction of the hero/villain binary
- 3 Uncle Moustache (1970): Carnivalesque deconstruction of hegemonic masculinity
- 4 Downpour (1971–2): The reformist intellectual and the meta-cinematic subversion of hegemonic masculinity
- 5 The Journey (1972): A Sisyphean quest for belonging in a world of toxic masculinity, violence and blind obedience
- 6 Stranger and the Fog (1974): Rituals of existence: Homecoming, becoming and departing
- 7 The Crow (1977): City, home and the pitfalls of Iranian modernity
- 8 Conclusion: In dialogue with time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright