Late Persianate / Late Soviet: The Poeticity of Poetic Cinema from Parajanov to Makhmalbaf

This talk considers a case study from the final decades of the long relationship between Persianate culture and communism: the Soviet Armenian director Sergei Parajanov's experimental efforts to bring the rhetorical structures of Persianate verse into the language of film, and the tremendous influence of those experiments on Iranian cinema... [then] culminates with a series of Parajanov-inflected experiments in poetic cinema that the former committed Islamic revolutionary filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf conducted in the 1990s and 2000s.

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