Iranian Cinema and Philosophy [electronic resource] : Shooting Truth /
Erfani, Farhang.author.
In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one philosopher and one particular aesthetic question.
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Cover; Iranian Cinema and Philosophy; Contents; Note from the Editor; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: How Orphans Believe: Deleuze, National Cinema, and Majidi's The Color of Paradise; Deleuze: On Realism and Movement-Image; Deleuze: Neorealism (and a Brief Analysis of Kiarostami's Life and Nothing More); Majidi: The Color of Paradise; Deleuze and Majidi: The Faith of Mohammad; CHAPTER 2: ""What Are Filmmakers for in Needy Times?"": On Heidegger and Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry; An Overview of Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry and the Question of the Medium; Heidegger on Art and Truth
Heidegger and KiarostamiCHAPTER 3: Committed Perception: Merleau-Ponty and Children of Heaven; Carroll on Emotions; Merleau-Ponty and Embodied Imagination; Censorship and Children of Heaven; Perception and Ideology; CHAPTER 4: Regarding You: Lacanian Gaze and Ethics in Kiarostami's Close-Up; A Brief Overview of Close-Up; Misreading Lacan's Gaze; The Three Orders: Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary; The Lacanian Gaze; Gaze in Close-Up; The Ethical Function of the Gaze in Close-Up; CHAPTER 5: Stolen Jouissance: Lacan, Feminism, and Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman
A Brief Overview of The Day I Became a WomanHava: The Birth of Desire; From Hava to Ahoo: From Demand to Desire and Jouissance; Traversing the Fantasy: From Hoora to Meshkini; Meshkini: The Fourth Woman of the Story; CHAPTER 6: Deafening Silence: Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly and Marginal Politics; Bahman Ghobadi and Turtles Can Fly; The Abject; Can Ghobadi Speak?; National Cinema and National Mission, Once Again; Hegemonic Movement: On the Way to the Green Movement; The Future of Iranian Cinema Is the Future of the Green Movement; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book is devoted to analyzing a single film, and each chapter focuses on one philosopher and one particular aesthetic question.
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