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Women, Iran, & the End of Film

One of the topics of this double-themed issue is a partial revisit of a subject treated in 2006 in Volume 10, Issue 7, the representation of women in Iranian cinema (or in the case of one of the essays, a non-Iranian film dealing with Iranian female characters).

The first essay by Ramin S. Khanjani, “Elegies for the vagrant souls: Reading Reza Allamezadeh’s films of exile,” covers a broad range of Iranian specific themes, along with representation of women (filmmakers in exile, films made by Kanoon, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, representation of children).

Khanjani takes as his theoretical cue “accented cinema,” a term developed by Hamid Naficy in his book An Accented Cinema. Accented cinema is defined as a cinema that stands in opposition to mainstream cinema which has as its goal non-ideological based entertainment.

Accented cinema,