{"title":"Embracing All My Trees: An Ecocritical Reading","authors":"Fatemeh-Mehr Khansalar","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a unique ecocritical perspective on Banietemad’s documentaries and filmmaking. In particular, the chapter considers the independent Karestan project that Banietemad co-established and undertakes a close reading of the documentary All My Trees, which portrays Mahlagha Mallah, mother of Iran’s environment.","PeriodicalId":404586,"journal":{"name":"ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114633390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rakhshan Banietemad’s Art of Social Realism: Bridging Realism and Fiction","authors":"Maryam Ghorbankarimi","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a survey of her documentary works in search of a unique social realist approach to filmmaking. The chapter argues that, although Banietemad’s auteurship might be evident in her films through their recurring links and themes, it is in her self-reflexive documentaries that we really see her artistic and critical approach to telling stories about ordinary people in society.","PeriodicalId":404586,"journal":{"name":"ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad","volume":" 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132011636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective Listening, Sonic Intimacy, and the Power of Quiet Voices in Rakhshan Banietemad’s The May Lady: Towards a Cinema of Empathy","authors":"L. Nooshin","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477611.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the variety of ways in which sound plays a pivotal role in The May Lady. Nooshin analyzes the act of listening as portrayed and provoked by the protagonist of the film, examining how the purely sonorous material qualities of the spoken voice, such as timbre, texture, and contour—often presented as being outside of referential meaning—in fact communicate a great deal to the listener “beyond words.” She argues in particular how sounds facilitate a new kind of filmic intimacy, affective subjectivity, and embodied listening that she terms “cinema of empathy.”","PeriodicalId":404586,"journal":{"name":"ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131033240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}