Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance
The Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12689986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marija Antić (0000-0001-7286-2759, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 3498-3514 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Media Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14680777.2022.2126870 |
| OpenAlex | W4298005509 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Mobilizing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of “becoming-revolutionary,” this article aims to address the relative absence of film studies scholarship on Iranian diasporic women’s cinema and transnational Iranian poetics of resistance. More specifically, it examines the role of female agency during Iran’s 2009 Green Movement in Sepideh Farsi’s, arguing that Farsi’s portrayal of a young Iranian woman’s progressive politics and sexual emancipation foregrounds connections between Iranian national and diasporic politics and poetics of female resistance. Formally, the film interweaves videos of the Green Movement made by anonymous protesters with intimate fictional narrative, allowing the two modes of storytelling to coalesce in their use of politicized bodies resisting the hegemonic ideological discourses of the state. I argue that the film’s textual hybridity emphasizes the role of “raw” protesters’ footage as an example of “minor” video, in the Deleuzian-Guattarian sense, in an effort to encompass and preserve the fragmented yet assertive voices of the Iranian civil rights movement and struggle for democracy
Agency (philosophy · Art · Emancipation · Hegemony · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Turkey's Politics and Society
Small Media, Big Revolution
The Skin of the Film
Women and Politics in Iran
Young and Defiant in Tehran
An Accented Cinema
Allegory in Iranian Cinema
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Political Participation in Iran from Khatami to the Green Movement
Democracy in Iran
Iran Between Two Revolutions
Iranelection
Precarious Lives
Forough Goes West
Rethinking the borders of feminism
Jewels of Allah
Iran
Eyewitness Accounts and Political Claims
A New Form for a New People
Lesbian minor cinema
Becoming-minor in a sustainable Europe
Pema Tseden's The Search
Metamorphoses
Anti-Oedipus
A thousand plateaus
Green Women of Iran
Diasporic Disclosures
The Invasion of the Private Sphere in Iran
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |