Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema: Identity, Appropriation, and Recontextualization

ISBN-13: 9781032389714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Morteza Yazdanjoo

Opis

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.

O autorze

Morteza Yazdanjoo is a postdoctoral researcher in English literature and Cultural Studies at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) and university lecturer. He teaches a variety of courses on English literature and Cultural Studies and is interested in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on how cinematic appropriations of world literature by Iranian cinema contribute to reflect sociocultural outlooks, values, and challenges in contemporary Iran.