Cross-cultural adaptations in national and international cinemas: the case of Iranian films

Author(s)Rezaie, Naghmeh
Date Accessioned2022-02-02T16:39:04Z
Date Available2022-02-02T16:39:04Z
Publication Date2021
SWORD Update2021-09-30T19:12:24Z
AbstractNational and international cinemas occupy two different territories in critical reception and criticism with an overlapping realm and unbridged gaps in between. The study of cross-cultural adaptations in a national cinema demands an understanding of the cultural, social, and political roles played by those adaptations in their historical context and in their dialogic relations to the world's literature and cinema with intercrossing moments of localization and universality. Focusing primarily on internationally marginalized cross-cultural adaptations in Iranian cinema, this project explores border-crossing encounters and socio-political intersections that remain unspoken when a cinema of the Global South adapts and remediates texts of the Global North while maintaining an air of exotic originality in its international presence. The case studies investigate the possibilities for transnational dialogues and intercontinental cultural exchanges across geographical, historical and socio-political borders undertaken by cinematic adaptations of non-Iranian source texts, from Nasser Taghvai's internationally marginalized Captain Khorshid (1987), based on Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, to Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning The Salesman (2016), based on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The concluding chapter considers the local and global reasons why cross-cultural adaptations have so rarely been produced in Iran despite the existing adaptations' significant impact. This interdisciplinary approach to adaptation theory, intertextuality, film criticism and cultural studies develops a model that explores adaptations in national cinemas for their unrealized potentials in initiating cross-cultural initiatives in a world that oscillates between border-crossing dialogues and border-blocking monologues.en_US
AdvisorLeitch, Thomas M.
DegreePh.D.
DepartmentUniversity of Delaware, Department of English
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.58088/26tk-4s03
Unique Identifier1294513629
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/30240
Languageen
PublisherUniversity of Delawareen_US
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KeywordsAdaptation theory
KeywordsFilm theory
KeywordsGlobal cinema
KeywordsIntertextuality
KeywordsIranian cinema
KeywordsNational cinema
TitleCross-cultural adaptations in national and international cinemas: the case of Iranian filmsen_US
TypeThesisen_US
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