Description:
As an interdisciplinary study, this book pinpoints intertextual and intercultural cross-fertilization between American literature and Iranian cinema, addressing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the latter to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen.
Review Quotes:
"Iranian film has become a major force in world cinema, and its sophisticated interactions with American literature have received far too little scholarly attention until now. Morteza Yazdanjoo opens up important new territory in his wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, providing fresh insights into discourses of gender, religion, identity, appropriation, narrativity, and politics as they pertain to cinema, literature, and other key areas of contemporary global culture. Scholars in many fields will welcome his work.
- David Sterritt, editor in chief, Quarterly Review of Film and Video"