Modern American literature and contemporary Iranian cinema : identity, appropriation, and recontextualization /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yazdanjoo, Morteza, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. ©2023
Description:	1 online resource ( 167 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in comparative literature Routledge studies in comparative literature.
Subject:	Motion pictures -- Iran. Film adaptations. Motion pictures and literature -- Iran. Civilization -- American influences. Film adaptations. Motion pictures. Motion pictures and literature. Iran -- Civilization -- American influences. Iran.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12936152

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ISBN:	9781003347781 1003347789 9781000821994 1000821994 9781000822021 1000822028 9781032389714 9781032389721
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Morteza Yazdanjoo is a postdoctoral researcher in English literature and Cultural Studies at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) and university lecturer. He teaches a variety of courses on English literature and Cultural Studies and is interested in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on how cinematic appropriations of world literature by Iranian cinema contribute to reflect sociocultural outlooks, values, and challenges in contemporary Iran. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2023).
Other form:	Print version: Yazdanjoo, Morteza. Modern American literature and contemporary Iranian cinema New York : Routledge, 2023 9781032389714
Standard no.:	10.4324/9781003347781

Table of Contents:

Adaptation studies, cultural materialism, and cultural studies: an intertextual dialogue
Narrative trajectories of national identity in Iranian cinema: a historical long shot
Performing the poetics of the Iranian Dream in popular culture: Dariush Mehrjui's appropriation of Saul Bellow's Herzog and J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
Watching Tenessee Williams in Iran: the sanctity of family reconstituted
Birth of a salesman: revisiting Willie Loman in Tehran
Conclusion

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