In my latest article, published in the journal In Media Res (IMR) on women’s representation in Iranian Cinema I discuss how women’s visibility, modernity and cinema fed and were in turn fed by state-led policies during the Pahlavi era and how, after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic despite utmost efforts failed to erode the depiction of the embodiment of modernity – i. e. women’s visibility.
In the first part I explore women’s claim to visibility via the silver screen and in the second part I look at how that visibility was lost and – despite the regime’s effort to the contrary – was reclaimed during the era of the Islamic Republic.