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Literature Talk
Literature TalkThe Interpreter of Desires: Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis
Southside
Iranian cinema has turned censorship into an art form: Dr. Farshid Kazemi unpacks how decades of restrictions on depicting desire actually created one of cinema's most formally inventive bodies of work. A free lecture weaving Lacanian theory with Shi'ite thought and Islamicate sexualities.
Academic lecture
Iranian cinema
Film theory
Free admission
Tips
đŹbrings Lacanian theory to contemporary Iranian films
đ§ examines how censorship shaped cinema's formal structure
đïžhosted by Berkeley Initiative for Iranian Studies
The Interpreter of Desires: Iranian Cinema with Psychoanalysis
Literature TalkLiterature TalkIranian cinema has turned censorship into an art form: Dr. Farshid Kazemi unpacks how decades of restrictions on depicting desire actually created one of cinema's most formally inventive bodies of work. A free lecture weaving Lacanian theory with Shi'ite thought and Islamicate sexualities.
Academic lecture
Iranian cinema
Film theory
Free admission
Tips
đŹbrings Lacanian theory to contemporary Iranian films
đ§ examines how censorship shaped cinema's formal structure
đïžhosted by Berkeley Initiative for Iranian Studies
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