Iran's Pieta
Motherhood, Sacrifice and Film in the Aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4784756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roxanne Varzi (0009-0001-1986-6029, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-98 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400379 |
| OpenAlex | W2045362297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
The Iran-Iraq war, which took place from 1980 to 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest conventional wars in the history of the last century. The war was also the largest mobilization of the Iranian population and was achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'i Islam. It was the war that created and consolidated what we know today as the Islamic republic of Iran. For years there have been two popular public discourses in post-war Iran: the secular discourse, which is to evade, to ignore, to escape to the Caspian; and then the state's discourse, of the strong, mourning women and the heroic martyrs. It is the group of women who exist betwixt the dominant discourses of the secular versus the religious and the idea of womanhood versus motherhood that I am interested in exploring here by looking at the most recent work of a secular female filmmaker, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Ancient history · Art history · Film director · Islam · Movie theater · Political science · Population · Sacrifice · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |