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Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics and Culture
Teaching Guide 2021 summer
12800 Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics and Culture
Face-to-face mode
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia – Tlf: (+34) 968 278 160 info@ucam.edu – www.ucam.edu
Arts- Tlf: (+34) 902 102 101Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics and Culture
12800 Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics and Culture
Course Information
Module: Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics and Culture
Field: Arts
Character: Introductory Training
Credits: 4
Course Instructor Information
Teacher: TBA
Office hours: 55 hours
Student’s attention timetable: Monday to Friday, 10h - 12h
Module coordinator teacher: To be assigned
Brief Description
This course explores the allegorical aesthetics and culture of
Iranian cinema through a series of selected film case studies. It
attempts to show how aesthetics cues or prompts viewers to look
for hidden meaning or to experience a film poetically beyond the
literal level of story or manifest meaning. In addition,the socio-
cultural influences of Iranian films are critically analyzed for
students to comprehend deeply on Iranian film development.
Previous Requisites
None.
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Competences and Learning Results
1. Cross Curricular Competences:
(1) Analysis and synthesis skills;
(2) Planning and organizational skills;
(3) Problem solving skills;
(4) Decision making skills;
(5) Information management skills;
(6) Computer science knowledge related to the field of study;
(7) Capacity for critical thinking;
(8) Autonomous learning;
(9) Motivation for quality;
(10) Reflection ability;
2. Learning Results:
Having successfully completed this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand Iranian cinema with regards to its aesthetics as well
as its socio-cultural context;
2. Demonstrate the meaning of aesthetics hidden beyond the literal
level of Iranian films;
3. Interpret and analyze particular cultural perspectives illustrated
in Iranian movies；
4. Argue a thesis about social and cultural issues as reflected in
Iranian films.
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3. Specific Competences
1. Analyze and interpret films using theoretical concepts and
terminology;
2. Acquire critical thinking skills and be able to analyze concepts
and topics under study;
3. Acquire logical reasoning capabilities and be able to understand
and explain of texts and visual material.
Methodology
Hours of work Hours of work
Methodology Hours
Face-to-face Non Face-to-
face
Lectures 50
88 hours (60%)
Practice teaching 8
Assessment 30
Personal study 30
68 hours (40%)
Tasks 22
Practical teaching 10
preparation
Bibliographic search 6
TOTAL 156 88 68
Required Textbook
Michelle Langford, Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry
and Resistance, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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Contents
Week Lesson Content
1 1 Introduction: Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics
of Poetry and Resistance
2 Locating Allegory in Pre-revolutionary Iranian Cinema
3 Self-reflexivity and the birth of Iranian film allegory
Allegory in popular genre films: Masoud Kimiai’s Qeysar
(1969)
4 The allegorical turn: Iranian New Wave cinema
Cycles of corruption in Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cycle
(1978)
5 Ebrahim Golestan’s The Secrets of the Treasure of the
Jenni Valley (1972)
Film Review 1 due
2 6 The Allegorical Children of Iranian Cinema
The allegorical palimpsest: Kamran Shirdel’s The Night It
Rained … or the Epic of the Gorgan Village Boy (1967)
7 Children as emblems of a new society: Majid Majidi’s
Children of Heaven (1997)
8 Cracks in time: Jafar Panahi’s The Mirror (1997)
9 Mina through the looking glass
Close listening to disembodied voices
Quiz 1
10 National allegory and the revolutionary geography of
Tehran
Some thoughts on the ideological effects of child-
centredIranian films
3 11 Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman
Towards an allegorical poetics
12 Midterm Test Reviews
13 Midterm Test
14 Horizontal negotiations
Havva – Negotiating continuity
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15 Ahu – Negotiating narrative agency and the male gaze
Hura – Negotiating the domestic mise en scène
4 16 On the way to becoming
Vertical explorations
17 Allegories of Love: The Cinematic Ghazal
From a cinema of poetry to the cinematic ghazal
18 Seeking the cinematic beloved: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A
Time for Love (1990)
19 Majid Majidi’s Baran (1999) and the cinesthetic ghazal
Film Review 2 due
20 Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Iranian War
Cinema
5 21 The Sacred Defence genre and the logic of the wound
Gender, Vatan and the Sacred Defence genre
22 Between Laughter and Mourning: About Elly as
Trauerspiel of a Generation
Quiz 2
23 Establishing a group dynamic: The collective protagonist
From the dissimulating camera to the dissimulating
character
24 Final Exam Reviews
25 Final Exam
Rating System:
1. Assessment
ASSESSMENT ITEM PERCENT OF FINAL GRADE
2 Film Reviews 20% (10% for each)
2 Quizzes 20% (10% for each)
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Midterm Test 20%
Final Exam 40%
2. Grading Scale
A+ 96-100 A 90-95 A- 85-89
B+ 82-84 B 78-81 B- 75-77
C+ 71-74 C 66-70 C- 62-65
D 60-61 F < 60
General Expectations:
Students are expected to:
Attend all classes and be responsible for all materials covered in class and
otherwise assigned;
Complete the daily required reading and assignments before class;
Review the previous class notes before class and make notes about questions you
have about the previous class or the course reading;
Participate in class discussions and complete required written work on time;
Refrain from texting, phoning or engaging in computer activities unrelated to class
during the class period;
While class participation is welcome, even required, you are expected to refrain
from private conversations during the class period.
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Attending Policy
Regular and prompt attendance is required. Attendance will be taken at the start of the
course. Those that miss their name, during roll call, will be counted as absent.
Students can miss up to three classes (including labs) and earn 7% (out of 10%). After
the third absence, students will earn a grade of 0% (out of 10%). Arriving late and/or
leaving before the end of the class are equivalent to absences.
Policy on “Late Withdrawals”
In accordance with the policy of UCAM, appeals for late withdrawal will be approved
ONLY in case of medical emergency and similar crises.
Academic Honesty
All students are expected to respect academic honesty policy. Instructors will fail
assignments that show any evidence of plagiarism or other forms of cheating and will
also report the student's information to the University Administration Office. A
student reported to the University for cheating will be placed on the list of disciplinary
probation; a student reported twice will be suspended or expelled.
Special Needs or Assistance
Please contact the University Administrative Office immediately if you have a
learning disability, a medical issue, or any other type of problem that prevents
professors from seeing you have learned the course material.
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