Masculinities in Banietemad’s Tales: Reshuffling Gender Dynamics under Socio-economic Pressures

Abstract

This chapter shows how Banietemad exposes social crisis in its reordering of gender relations. By examining the vignettes of everyday life which make up Tales, Khamsy discusses how Banietemad’s camera lyrically conveys gender reshuffling, thereby confronting the bigger question of imbalance in studies of gender in Iranian cinema.