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Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran

Kazemimanesh, Sara
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1566556001982398

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
This dissertation is a historiographic intervention in the prevailing canon of experimental cinema, and more specifically the history of Iranian cinema. I utilize expanded cinema as an inclusive term that reconciles critical discourses about avant-garde and expanded art practice with experimental and underground film. By investigating the emergence and evolution of expanded cinema in Iran, I posit it as a counter-force to the patriarchal traditions of hierarchy and exclusion that dominate cinema and other cultural spheres in the Islamic Republic. Additionally, I argue that the subjective agency of contemporary Iranian artists, particularly women like Newsha Tavakolian (b. 1981) and Nastaran Safaei (b. 1984), has initiated a new feminist discourse that boldly tackles issues related to gender, identity, and body politics.
Erin Schlumpf (Advisor)
335 p.
Film Studies; Fine Arts; History
expanded cinema; Iran; post-revolution; progressive feminism; video; video-art; expanded practice; experimental cinema; history; post-media

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  • Kazemimanesh, S. (2019). Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1566556001982398

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kazemimanesh, Sara. Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran. 2019. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1566556001982398.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kazemimanesh, Sara. "Underground Labyrinths: Woman and Expanded Cinema in Contemporary Iran." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1566556001982398

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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