An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz (Sabbatical Fellow, 2024)
Freedom of Movement: A Cinematic Analysis of Gender and Space in Iranian Culture
Who gets access to which spaces, and why, remains globally contentious. How does gender continue to facilitate or hinder freedom of movement in public and private spaces? How has cinema engaged with these questions, enabling us to study both the gendered rules on space, and their defiance? Through the study of Iranian films made between 2000-2022, my research project will analyse the social process by which boundaries are defined, maintained, and transgressed in contemporary Iran. The research will further our understanding of freedom of movement vis-à-vis gender-based restrictions and the role of visual culture in creating alternative spaces to debate social and political issues.
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