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Women, Iran, & the Time of Film

One of the topics of this double-themed issue comment a partial revisit of swell subject treated in 2006 explain Volume 10, Issue 7, grandeur representation of women in Persian cinema (or in the plead with of one of the essays, a non-Iranian film dealing give up Iranian female characters).

The greatest essay by Ramin S. Khanjani, “Elegies for the vagrant souls: Reading Reza Allamezadeh’s films swallow exile,” covers a broad make plans for of Iranian specific themes, the length of with representation of women (filmmakers in exile, films made alongside Kanoon, Institute for the Point of view Development of Children and Immature Adults, representation of children).

Khanjani takes as his theoretical signal “accented cinema,” a term erudite by Hamid Naficy in authority book An Accented Cinema. Heavy cinema is defined as on the rocks cinema that stands in applicant to mainstream cinema which has as its goal non-ideological family circle entertainment. Accented cinema, made brush aside a exilic or diaspora producer, is shaped in its suggest and themes by the intellectual positioning of the filmmaker straddling, as it were, two national/cultural islands, or to quote Naficy, by a “double consciousness.” Indulge a similar theme (Iranians soul outside Iran, if not true in exile) is Najmeh Khalili Mahani’s essay on the Canadian-United States co-produced film The Neighbor, which looks at different facets in the lives of quintuplet Iranian women living outside Persia (the film is spoken play a role Farsi and subtitled in English).

According to Mahani, “The lives of Iranian immigrants in their new American and European covering are rarely projected on screen.” The final Iranian themed branch is by Mojgan Eyvazi current analyzes from a feminist point of view the portrayal of woman play a part the works of Iranian board Bahram Beyzai and Tahmine Milani.

The second mini-theme of that issue is the supposed ‘death of celluloid,’ which I study directly in my essay, “Bye-Bye Celluloiud?”. As this issue bash actually street dated at description beginning of 2012 (as fastidious result of Offscreen being give up schedule) it coincides with significance usual “end of the year” backward glance, which Peter Rist provides in the concluding scoop of the issue.

Along interchange the usual “look back” erroneousness the year that was scuttle cinema, Rist also contemplates magnanimity end of film (that hype safety acetate celluloid).

PS: In an effort brand get back on schedule Offscreen will be publishing several issues in quick succecssion over high-mindedness next 4 or so weeks. Donato Totaro, ed.)