Iranian culture in Bahram Beyzaie's cinema and theatre : paradigms of being and belonging (1959-1979) / Saeed Talajooy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talajooy, Saeed, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bayz̤āʼī, Bahrām--Criticism and interpretation.

Bayz̤āʼī, Bahrām.

Motion picture producers and directors--Iran.

Motion picture producers and directors.

National characteristics, Iranian, in literature.

National characteristics, Iranian, in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 277 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2023.

Summary:

"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." -- From the publisher.

Contents:

Bahram Beyzaie's Contour in Time: A Theory of Creativity

The Puppet Trilogy (1962-3): Beyzaie's Deconstruction of the Hero/Villain Binary

Uncle Moustache (1970): Beyzaie's Carnivalesque Deconstruction of Hegemonic Masculinity

Downpour (1971-2): The Creative Intellectual and the Meta-Cinematic Subversion of Hegemonic Masculinity

The Journey (1972): A Sisyphean Quest for Belonging in a World of Toxic Masculinity

The Stranger and the Fog (1974): Rituals of Existence: Homecoming, Becoming and Departing

The Crow (1977): City, Home, and the Pitfalls of Iranian Modernity

Conclusion: The Revolution and the End of an Era

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0755648668

9780755648665

OCLC:

1349567409