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OverviewSince the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinema. Beyzaie’s work reformulates indigenous artistic and ritual forms and cultural narratives in plays and films whose emancipatory aesthetics have influenced several generations of writers, playwrights, and filmmakers. This book examines the origins and development of what the author identifies as Beyzaie’s unique sense of creativity, using an interdisciplinary method of semiotic and cultural analysis to identify its manifestations in Beyzaie’s films and plays of the 1960s and 1970s. It focusses on Beyzaie’s early works, such as Downpour and Uncle Moustache, and how they engage with neglected aspects of Iranian culture to challenge mainstream approaches to writing and directing plays and films. In this way, the author argues, Beyzaie’s work questions notions of being and belonging, by subverting exclusionist discourses on art, politics, society, culture, self and other, personal and collective identity, gender relations, intellectuals, heroes and villains, and children. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Saeed TalajooyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris ISBN: 9780755648665ISBN 10: 0755648668 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 20 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Bahram Beyzaie's Contour in Time: A Theory of Creativity 2. The Puppet Trilogy (1962-3): Beyzaie's Deconstruction of the Hero/Villain Binary 3. Uncle Moustache (1970): Beyzaie's Carnivalesque Deconstruction of Hegemonic Masculinity 4. Downpour (1971-2): The Creative Intellectual and the Meta-Cinematic Subversion of Hegemonic Masculinity 5. The Journey (1972): A Sisyphean Quest for Belonging in a World of Toxic Masculinity 6. The Stranger and the Fog (1974): Rituals of Existence: Homecoming, Becoming and Departing 7. The Crow (1977): City, Home, and the Pitfalls of Iranian Modernity 8. Conclusion: The Revolution and the End of an EraReviewsThis 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 * Author InformationSaeed Talajooy is Lecturer in Persian at the University of St Andrews, UK. His publications include chapters on Iranian theatre and cinema, articles on Bahram Beyzaie’s cinema and theatre, the co-edited volume, Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies: Literature, Cinema and Music (2012) and a Special Issue of Iranian Studies on Bahram Beyzaie. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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