Kiarostami, Abbas

This dissertation is a close examination of the role of Iranian national cinema in the constitution of national identity both within and across geographic national boundaries. By focusing on specific moments of cross-cultural reception as dynamic processes of cultural exchange a…

This dissertation explores two important aspects of filmic discourse, the representation of time and the body as read through gesture. Drawing on the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope, or the time-space continuum expressed in literature, it imp…

Revolution or Evolution? A Comparative Poetics of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema is a study of Iranian cinema as a major cultural form of expression after the Islamic revolution in 1978. It argues that although other forms of cultural expression such as poetry and fiction wer…