Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran

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" Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran "
Kazemimanesh, Sara Schlumpf, Erin

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1053252
Doc. No	:	TL52369
Main Entry	:	Kazemimanesh, Sara
Title & Author	:	Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran\ Kazemimanesh, SaraSchlumpf, Erin
College	:	Ohio University
Date	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2019
Note	:	336 p.
Abstract	:	This dissertation is a historiographic intervention in the prevailing canon of experimental cinema, and more specifically the history of Iranian cinema. I utilize expanded cinema as an inclusive term that reconciles critical discourses about avant-garde and expanded art practice with experimental and underground film. By investigating the emergence and evolution of expanded cinema in Iran, I posit it as a counter-force to the patriarchal traditions of hierarchy and exclusion that dominate cinema and other cultural spheres in the Islamic Republic. Additionally, I argue that the subjective agency of contemporary Iranian artists, particularly women like Newsha Tavakolian (b. 1981) and Nastaran Safaei (b. 1984), has initiated a new feminist discourse that boldly tackles issues related to gender, identity, and body politics.
Descriptor	:	Film studies
	:	Middle Eastern studies
	:	Womens studies
Added Entry	:	Schlumpf, Erin
Added Entry	:	Ohio University