Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre
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Author_Saeed Talajooy
Bahram Beyzaie
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Downpour
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Iranian Cinema
Iranian Theatre
Killing Mad Dogs
The Crow
the Little Stranger
The Stranger and the Fog
Uncle Moustache
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- ISBN 9780755648665
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Saeed Talajooy is Lecturer in Persian at the University of St Andrews, UK. His publications include chapters on Iranian theatre and cinema, articles on Bahram Beyzaie’s cinema and theatre, the co-edited volume, Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies: Literature, Cinema and Music (2012) and a Special Issue of Iranian Studies on Bahram Beyzaie.
