Iranian Cinema and Women’s Representation
In her latest article on women’s representation in Iranian Cinema, Shiva Rahbaran discusses 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...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – ‘Kommt Und Tötet Mich!’
In dieser Artikel zeigt Shiva Rahbaran wie Die Ermordung des iranischen Filmregisseurs Dariush Mehrjui eine Fortsetzung der Kettenmorde der Neunzigerjahre an der Intellektuelle und Künstler in Iran ist und bezeugt, dass die anti-moderne Nature des Regimes trotz allen...
‘Come and Kill Me!’: Killing Mehrjui and the Repeat of 1990s Chain-Murders
In this article, Shiva Rahbaran argues that the murder of the Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui is a continuation of the serial assassination (also called chain-murders) of intellectuals and artists in the 1990s Iran. She believes that this murder is yet another...
Who’s afraid of Iranian Cinema? Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Film
In this article Shiva Rahbaran shows that it is no coincidence that filmmakers, actors and actresses have been important figureheads in the “Women, Life, Freedom” feminist uprising in Iran. For the country’s anti-modern theocratic regime, both cinema and women’s...