Description: A detailed analysis of the early film and dramatic works of celebrated Iranian filmmaker and playwright Bahram Beyzaie
Brief description: Saeed Talajooy is a Senior Lecturer in Persian at the University of St Andrews, UK. His publications include chapters and articles on Iranian theatre and cinema, a co-edited volume entitled Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music (2012), a Special Issue of Iranian Studies on Bahram Beyzaie (2013), a monograph entitled Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie's Cinema in Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (I.B.Tauris, 2023) and an edited volume entitled The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie: Origins, Forms and Functions (I.B.Tauris, 2024).
Review Quotes:
"For readers of the Journal of Religion & Film, this book serves best as a comprehensive reference that maps the territory of Beyzaie's pre-revolutionary work while indicating where religious themes merit deeper investigation. Talajooy has provided the foundational scholarship; now scholars of religion can build upon his work to explore the spiritual dimensions he acknowledges but doesn't fully pursue." --Journal of Religion & Film
"This book offers a remarkably rich analysis of the works of one of Iran's most renowned playwrights and filmmakers, Bahram Beyzaie. Focused on Beyzaie's oeuvre between 1959 and 1979, this unparalleled work of scholarship is indispensable for understanding Beyzaie's unique engagement with and critique of modernity in the Iranian cultural context." --Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine, USA