Animating Eroded Landscapes: The Cinema of Ali Hatami

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" Animating Eroded Landscapes: The Cinema of Ali Hatami "
Ramin Sadegh Khanjani

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	42415
Doc. No	:	TL15859
Call number	:	‭MR93613‬
Main Entry	:	Ramin Sadegh Khanjani
Title & Author	:	Animating Eroded Landscapes: The Cinema of Ali Hatami\ Ramin Sadegh Khanjani
College	:	Carleton University (Canada)
Date	:	2012
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2012
Page No	:	166
Abstract	:	International scholarship on Iranian cinema has been stimulated and yet constricted by the reception of recent Iranian films at major film festivals, where a few exceptional "festival films" have ended up defining Iranian cinema as a whole. To redress the limitations of current accounts of Iranian cinema, my thesis focuses on the work of Ali Hatami, a major Iranian director whose singular style has hindered his inclusion into the critical writing on Iranian cinema. In the first chapter, case studies of two of Hatami's films, Baba Shamal (1971) and The Love-Stricken (1991) trace the fundamentals of his style to Hatami's fascination with Iranian traditional arts. The second chapter uses a study of Hatami's Ghalandar (1971) to illuminate the director's equivocal stance towards traditional conceptions of gender. Finally, in the third chapter, an examination of Haji Washington (1981) reveals a similarly equivocal tone in Hatami's account of a historical encounter between traditional Iran and the West.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Iran; Film studies; 0900:Film studies
Added Entry	:	Carleton University (Canada)