TY - GEN T1 - Counter-memories in Iranian cinema A2 - Wittmann, Matthias, 1975- A2 - Holl, Ute LA - English PP - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press Ltd YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1292588172 AB - "Farīd ad-Dīn-e ʻAṭṭār's Persian folk tale The Conference of the Birds relates the quest by thousands of pilgrim birds for an ideal king, the mythical bird called Sīmorgh. At the end of the quest, the surviving birds recognise that the longed-for king is nothing other than the reflection of their own existence. But what about those other birds that were not able to become part of the final representation? This groundbreaking book calls them 'counter-memories'; memories that are barred from hegemonic history, but are, nevertheless present in cinematic forms. Due to the strategic and artistic interventions of a range of Iranian filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Shahram Mokri, Ali Hatami and Tahmineh Milani, Kianoush Ayari and Rakshan Banietemad, the history of post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema is also structured by counter-memories, with the potential to destabilise officially fabricated success stories of revolution, war and sacred defence. Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema establishes a new framework for understanding the tensions between censorship and resistance, helping to carve out resistant points of remembering both within and outside state-controlled cinema."--Publisher description. CN - PN1993.5.I846 C68 2021 SN - 9781474479776 SN - 1474479774 SN - 9781399509114 SN - 139950911X SN - 9781474479783 SN - 1474479782 SN - 9781474479752 SN - 1474479758 KW - Motion pictures : Iran : History : 20th century. KW - Motion pictures : Iran : History : 21st century. KW - Memory in motion pictures. KW - Iran : History : Revolution, 1979. KW - Cinéma : Iran : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cinéma : Iran : Histoire : 21e siècle. KW - Mémoire au cinéma. KW - Iran : Histoire : 1979 (Révolution) KW - Memory in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Iran KW - 1900-2099 KW - History ER -