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forthcoming
Iranian cinema
Shirin Neshat
transnational cinema
video installation
women directors
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- ISBN 9781399562287
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this volume traces Neshat’s evolution from Women of Allah to her feature films Women Without Men, Looking for Oum Kulthum and Land of Dreams, situating her within global debates on feminism, exile and transnational aesthetics.
Organised around three themes: Feminist Interventions and Cinematic Authorship, Diasporic Visions and Transnational Frames, and Sensory Histories and Poetic Bodies, the collection presents diverse critical perspectives on her aesthetics of resistance and the politics of representation.
Featuring an exclusive interview with Neshat, the book offers new interdisciplinary insights into her artistic and cinematic legacy, positioning her as a pivotal figure whose work transforms personal narratives of displacement into universal meditations on power, memory and identity.
Maryam Ghorbankarimi is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on women’s representation in Iranian cinema, transnational feminist aesthetics, and the intersections of film, politics and cultural memory. She is the author of A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women’s Representation in Iranian Cinema (2015) and editor of ReFocus: The Works of Rakhshan Banietemad (2021). She also co-edited The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema (2024). Mazyar Mahan is a Teaching Associate and PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He teaches courses on transnational cinema, global art cinema, and understanding film. His dissertation examines films made by Iranian expatriate filmmakers over the past decade. His research has appeared in Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration, The Spectator, and The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media.
