[Commlist] CFP - Refocus: the Films of Rakhshan Banietemad

*/ReFocus/: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad*

/Edited by Maryam Ghorbankarimi (University of Lancaster)/

*Call for chapter proposals*

Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2019

Deadline for chapters: 30 September 2019

Rakhshan Benietemad is one of the first Iranian female directors with a 
career spanning over 40 years. Besides leaving a rich legacy through 
both her documentaries and fiction films, she has been an influential 
figure in Iranian film industry. This is evident especially in her 
endorsement and collaboration in establishing ‘Karestan’, a documentary 
initiative to produce documentary films on Iranian entrepreneurs.

Rakhshan Banietemad along with other female pioneers such as Pouran 
Derakhshandeh and Tahmineh Milani not only have paved the way for women 
to enter the film industry in Iran, she has also helped transform the 
representation of women in Iranian films. Incorporating stories from her 
research and documentaries into her fiction films has created some of 
the best female-centric social realist films coming out of Iran. 
Although Rakhshan Banietemad and her films have been subject of much 
scholarly writing, there are many aspects of her films that have not 
been scrutinised in full, in a cohesive study such as the proposed one. 
The proposed anthology intends to put together a comprehensive and fresh 
study of her work. Chapters focusing on both single films and themes or 
her work as a whole are welcomed. Possible topics could include but are 
by no means limited to:

·Analysis of individual films (including shorts and documentaries)

·Female Authorship

·Problematising feminism

·Banietemad and women’s cinema

·Banietemad and the Iranian film industry

·Genre and experimentation in Banietemad’s work

·Men and Masculinity in Banietemad’s work

·Love and relationships in Banietemad’s work

·Nation and/or institution, identity and subjectivity in Banietemad’s work

·Politics and aesthetics in Banietemad’s work

·Private and public spaces in Banietemad’s work

Please send your 500-750 word proposal and CV to the editor of the 
volume, Maryam Ghorbankarimi, at the latest by 15 April*2019*. Our 
volume will be published by the University of Edinburgh Press in the 
/ReFocus/ series on international directors. Series editors are Robert 
Singer, Gary D. Rhodes and Stefanie Van de Peer.

Final submissions will be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, in English, and 
referenced in Chicago endnote style. We are anticipating a *Winter 2019 
*submission date*.*

Please direct any enquiries or questions to:

Dr Maryam Ghorbankarimi

Email: (m.ghorbankarimi /at/ lancaster.uk.ac) 
<mailto:(m.ghorbankarimi /at/ lancaster.uk.ac)>


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