The Cinema of Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Roxanne Varzi, Laura Mulvey
Date: 19 April 2008Time: 9:30 AM
Finishes: 19 April 2008Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: 0
Programme
| 9:30 | Registration, coffee and tea |
| 10:00 | Opening remarks Professor Paul Webley, Director and Principal of SOAS, University of London |
| 10:15 | Plenary speaker Roxanne Varzi: Motherhood, Sacrifice and the aftermath of war in Bani-Etemad's Gilaneh |
| 10:40 | Panel One: Bani-Etemad’s cinema: challenges for film theory Chair: Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad Tilly Walnes: “You just turn dumb in front of this camera”: Reconfiguring melodramatic expression in Under the Skin of the City Taraneh Dadar: Unveiled spectators: A discussion of spectatorship in the cinema of Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Chris Gow: Self-Reflexivity in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s The May Lady |
| 12: 00 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 | Panel Two: Bani-Etemad’s cinema: Gender and sexual politics Chair: Annabelle Sreberny Hamid Reza Sadr: Nargess: The sexual dynamism of love triangle Maryam Ghorbankarimi: Gender balance on the screen: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s films since the 1990s Alain Brunet: ‘The mother’ in Bani-Etemad’s cinema |
| 15:00 | Tea break |
| 15:30 | Panel Three: Bani-Etemad’s cinema: meaning, language and violence Chair: Roxanne Varzi Asal Bagheri: The blue veiled: How to unveil taboos between women and men Naghmeh Samini: A spinning coin: The opposition between violence and dialogue in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s films |
| 17:00 | Plenary speaker Laura Mulvey: Bani-Etemad’s cinema: Final thoughts |
| 18:00 | End |
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Organiser: The Centre for Media and Film Studies
Contact email: sz10@soas.ac.uk
Sponsor: Supported by Iran Heritage Foundation, the British Film Institute (BFI) and the British Council
