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Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 9781780762982

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Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance. Michelle Langford (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Pp. xiv, 278 (hardcover). ISBN 9781780762982

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2022

Blake Atwood*
Affiliation:
American University of Beirut, Lebanon (ba71@aub.edu.lb)

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies

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References

1 Nichols, Bill, “Discovering Form, Inferring Meaning: New Cinemas and the Film Festival Circuit,” Film Quarterly 47, no. 3 (1994): 16–30CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Nichols, “Discovering Form, Inferring Meaning,” 18.

3 Ibid, 27.

4 See, for example, Askari, Kaveh, “Eastern Boys and Failed Heroes: Iranian Cinema in the World's Orbit,” Cinema Journal 57, no. 3 (2018): 29–53Google Scholar; Atwood, Blake, Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Partovi, Pedram, Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution: Family and Nation in Fīlmfārsī (New York: Routledge, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Rekabtalaei, Golbarg, Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History (Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.