2008
DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-2008-029
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Martyrdom and the “Good Life” In the Iranian Cinema of Sacred Defense

Abstract: This essay investigates the place of cinema in the formulation and maintenance of an Iranian popular civil religion—reworking older ideas and practices largely taken from Islam to articulate with modern social and political change in Iran. Of particular interest is the theme of martyrdom in the Iranian cinema of sacred defense, originally conceived to depict the spiritual dimensions of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88). I explore the foundational role of this genre in the postrevolutionary Iranian cinema and its dev… Show more

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