Iranian cinema and philosophy
Subtitle: shooting truth
By: Farhang Erfani
Series: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230339118
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How orphans believe: Deleuze, national cinema and Majidi's The color of paradise. Deleuze: on realism and movement-Image; title: Deleuze: neorealism (and a brief analysis of Kiarostami's life and nothing more); title: Majidi: The color of paradise; title: Deleuze and Majidi: the faith of Mohammad; title: "What are filmmakers for in needy times?"  On Heidegger and Kiarostami's Taste of cherry; title: An overview of Kiarostami's Taste of cherry and the question of the medium; title: Heidegger on art and truth; title: Heidegger and Kiarostami; title: Committed perception: Merleau-Ponty and Children of heaven; title: Carroll on emotions; title: Merleau-Ponty and embodied Imagination; title: Censorship and Children of heaven; title: Perception and ideology. Regarding you: Lacanian gaze and ethics in Kiarostami's Close-up; title: A brief overview of Close-up; title: Misreading Lacan's gaze; title: The three orders: real, symbolic and imaginary; title: The Lacanian gaze; title: Gaze in Close-up; title: The ethical function of the gaze in Close-up; title: Stolen Jouissance: Lacan, feminism and Meshkini's The day I became a woman. A brief overview of The day I became a woman; title: Hava: the birth of desire; title: From Hava to Ahoo: from demand to desire and jouissance; title: Traversing the fantasy: from Hoora to Meshkini; title: Meshkini: the fourth woman of the story; title: Deafening silence: Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles can fly and marginal politics; title: Bahman Ghobadi and Turtles can fly; title: The abject; title: Can Ghobadi speak?   National cinema and national mission, once again; title: Hegemonic movement: on the way to the Green Movement; title: The future of Iranian cinema is the future of the Green Movement.