ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat
Maryam Ghorbankarimi editor Mazyar Mahan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:31st Aug '26
£90.00
This title is due to be published on 31st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this volume traces Neshat’s evolution from Women of Allah to her feature films Women Without Men, Looking for Oum Kulthum and Land of Dreams, situating her within global debates on feminism, exile and transnational aesthetics. Organised around three themes: Feminist Interventions and Cinematic Authorship, Diasporic Visions and Transnational Frames, and Sensory Histories and Poetic Bodies, the collection presents diverse critical perspectives on her aesthetics of resistance and the politics of representation. Featuring an exclusive interview with Neshat, the book offers new interdisciplinary insights into her artistic and cinematic legacy, positioning her as a pivotal figure whose work transforms personal narratives of displacement into universal meditations on power, memory and identity.
This impressive edited volume bridges the national and transnational to liberate Shirin Neshat from the limiting label of the ‘exiled postcolonial artist.’ Investigating her work’s multidimensional explorations of identity, each essay remarkably centers feminist agency in Neshat’s visual poetics and illuminates how her art transforms the personal into the collective and the image into a site of resistance and healing. * Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Seton Hall University *
ISBN: 9781399562287
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312 pages