Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinematic and Dramatic Worlds
In Dialogue with Time (1979-2025)
Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinematic and Dramatic Worlds
In Dialogue with Time (1979-2025)
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Description
Despite strict censorship after the 1979 revolution, Persian literature and Iranian cinema, music, art and theatre found new ways to evolve and flourish.
Bahram Beyzaie, whose innovative approaches to cultural production had helped revitalize indigenous Iranian artistic forms for modern purposes before the revolution, continued his work as a leading filmmaker and playwright in the decades following the revolution. This book examines Beyzaie's unique synthesis of world cinema and performing arts and Iranian literature, folktales, myths and ritual traditions across more than 70 screenplays, plays, films and monographs produced between 1979 and 2021, including key films such as Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs. It also engages with the various aspects of Iranian culture which Beyzaie's works deal with and examines the semiotic and thematic structures of his creative works, particularly his films, with the view to revealing their dialogue with Iran's past, present and future.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction: In Dialogue with Time
Chapter 2
Ballad of Tara (1978-1980): The History of Absence and the Birth of a Heroine
Chapter 3
Death of Yazdgerd: Congregation for Regicide (1981): History and the Drama of the Lower and the Higher Echelons of Power
Chapter 4
Nation and Nationalism in Beyzaie's Oeuvre: Towards a New Conception of Nationhood
Chapter 5
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1985): Shifting the National Borders of Belonging in a Mythopoetic Discourse on Collective Identity
Chapter 6
Maybe Some Other Time (1988): From Myths of Belonging and Intellectuals as Sacrificial Heroes to Home, Family, City, and Shadows of our Potential Selves
Chapter 7
Travellers (1992): Ritualisation of Death, Rebirth and Sacred Marriage
Chapter 8
Against Anomie and Reductionism: The Total Recall and Failure of Total Recall in The Reed Panel (1992) and Dialogue with the Wind (1998)
Chapter 9
Killing Mad Dogs (2000): Anomie, Evil and a New Vision of Salvation
Chapter 10
When We Are All Sleeping (2009): The Total Ascendance of Mad Dogs
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Jan 07 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 432 |
| ISBN | 9780755648719 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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