The Blue-veiled: A Semiological Analysis of a Social Love Story

Abstract

This chapter explores how, through formal filmic grammar, Banietemad has depicted love and relations between men and women in this film. This chapter also demonstrates how Iranian cinema chastely explores love and expresses its own “Iranian form” regarding relationships between man and woman, through constructing space in the way that traditional Iranian architecture does (external spaces for guests and internal spaces for family and private activities), but also through using stylistic devices reminiscent of classical Persian poetry.