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Modern American literature and contemporary Iranian cinema : identity, appropriation, and recontextualization / Morteza Yazdanjoo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yazdanjoo, Morteza, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in comparative literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Iran.
- Motion pictures.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures and literature--Iran.
- Motion pictures and literature.
- Iran--Civilization--American influences.
- Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Morteza Yazdanjoo is a postdoctoral researcher in English literature and Cultural Studies at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) and university lecturer. He teaches a variety of courses on English literature and Cultural Studies and is interested in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on how cinematic appropriations of world literature by Iranian cinema contribute to reflect sociocultural outlooks, values, and challenges in contemporary Iran.
- Contents:
- Adaptation studies, cultural materialism, and cultural studies: an intertextual dialogue
- Narrative trajectories of national identity in Iranian cinema: a historical long shot
- Performing the poetics of the Iranian Dream in popular culture: Dariush Mehrjui's appropriation of Saul Bellow's Herzog and J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
- Watching Tenessee Williams in Iran: the sanctity of family reconstituted
- Birth of a salesman: revisiting Willie Loman in Tehran
- Conclusion
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Yazdanjoo, Morteza. Modern American literature and contemporary Iranian cinema
- ISBN:
- 9781003347781
- 1003347789
- 9781000821994
- 1000821994
- 9781000822021
- 1000822028
- Publisher Number:
- 40031580533
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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