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Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film, Hina Muneeruddin
Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film, Hina Muneeruddin
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Alberto Fernández Carbajal's Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film.
Gender And Patriarchy In The Films Of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study Of 21st Century Features From Eight Countries, Candace Mixon
Gender And Patriarchy In The Films Of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study Of 21st Century Features From Eight Countries, Candace Mixon
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Patricia R. Owen, Gender and Patriarchy in the Films of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study of 21st Century Features from Eight Countries.
No Riddle But Time: Historical Consciousness In Two Islamicate Films, David Sander
No Riddle But Time: Historical Consciousness In Two Islamicate Films, David Sander
Journal of Religion & Film
This article explores ways in which film expresses “internal history” in the context of Muslim cultures. As such, it enquires how film can work as both Islamic art and historical contemplation. The films discussed here, Nacer Khemir’s Wanderers in the Desert and Muhammad Rasoulof’s Iron Island, inhabit and explore the borderline between imagination and reality. The films in question offer an imaginal interspace between “modern” and “traditional” worlds. As such they open up critical perspectives on the meaning of history. What follows is a discussion of how each film offers a window onto differing perceptions of time, and what …
The Gaze And A Sufi Ethics Of Vision In Majidi’S The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, And The Real, Cyrus A. Zargar
The Gaze And A Sufi Ethics Of Vision In Majidi’S The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, And The Real, Cyrus A. Zargar
Journal of Religion & Film
In his 2005 film The Willow Tree (Bīd-i Majnūn), Majid Majidi offers a complex moral commentary on the faculty of sight. To do so, the filmmaker draws from Sufi theories of gazing, in which desire must be for ultimate meaning (maʿnā), as conveyed through the vehicle of perceivable form (ṣūra), a distinction with both metaphysical and ethical implications. Majidi presents sight, when devoid of contemplation, as a sort of voyeurism, especially in contrast to the privacy and immediacy of speech and especially within the context of the modern city. Moreover, his use of a …
The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011, Ali A. Olomi
The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011, Ali A. Olomi
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Kerem Bayraktaroglu's The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011 (North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2018).
Saudi Runaway, John C. Lyden
Saudi Runaway, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Saudi Runaway (2020) directed by Susanne Regina Meures.
Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness (2019) directed by Massoud Bakhshi.
Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz
Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Berna Gueneli's Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019).
Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh
Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp's Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015).
Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain
Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Blinded by the Light (2019) directed by Gurinder Chadha.
Hala, John C. Lyden
Hala, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Hala (2019), directed by Minhal Baig.
Abe, John C. Lyden
Abe, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Abe (2019) directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade.
Visual Grandeur, Imagined Glory: Identity Politics And Hindu Nationalism In Bajirao Mastani And Padmaavat, Baijayanti Roy
Visual Grandeur, Imagined Glory: Identity Politics And Hindu Nationalism In Bajirao Mastani And Padmaavat, Baijayanti Roy
Journal of Religion & Film
This paper examines the tropes through which the Hindi (Bollywood) historical films Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Padmaavat (2018) create idealised pasts on screen that speak to Hindu nationalist politics of present-day India. Bajirao Mastani is based on a popular tale of love, between Bajirao I (1700-1740), a powerful Brahmin general, and Mastani, daughter of a Hindu king and his Iranian mistress. The relationship was socially disapproved because of Mastani`s mixed parentage. The film distorts India`s pluralistic heritage by idealising Bajirao as an embodiment of Hindu nationalism and portraying Islam as inimical to Hinduism. Padmaavat is a film about a legendary …
‘Love-Jihad’ And Bollywood: Constructing Muslims As ‘Other’, Nadira Khatun
‘Love-Jihad’ And Bollywood: Constructing Muslims As ‘Other’, Nadira Khatun
Journal of Religion & Film
In the postcolonial nation state that is India, cinema has become an important tool for propagating the idea of nationalism. In recent times, one of the most controversial components of Hindu nationalism has been the hate campaign against what is termed as ‘love-jihad’, which is deployed as a weapon to mobilize, polarize, and communalize citizens. The Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, has also become a controversial site. In this paper, I argue that if ‘Indian nationalism’ is to be represented as ‘Hindu nationalism’ and ‘Indian culture’ as ‘Hindu culture,’ it logically follows that this majoritarian construction needs …
Reason (Vivek), J. Barton Scott
Reason (Vivek), J. Barton Scott
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Reason (Vivek) (2018), directed by Anand Patwardhan.
The Qur'anic Epic In Iranian Cinema (Farsi), Nacim Pak-Shiraz
The Qur'anic Epic In Iranian Cinema (Farsi), Nacim Pak-Shiraz
Journal of Religion & Film
The representation of religious figures in Islam has become particularly controversial in recent years. The creation of religious films has, therefore, turned into a highly sensitive undertaking. Iranian cinema is one of the very few in the Muslim world to have employed this new medium in imagining and narrating stories of revered religious figures. In this article I examine the complex socio-political context of Iran to study the relatively late emergence of the epic genre in Iranian cinema. I then study the recent creation and development of ‘Qur’anic Films’ within Iranian cinema with specific reference to Kingdom of Solomon (Mulk-i …
Butterflies, John C. Lyden
Butterflies, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Butterflies (2018), directed by Tolga Karacelik.
Religious And National Identity In My Name Is Khan (Hindi Translation), Kathleen M. Erndl
Religious And National Identity In My Name Is Khan (Hindi Translation), Kathleen M. Erndl
Journal of Religion & Film
The Bollywood film, My Name Is Khan (2010) is the story of an Indian Muslim man, Rizwan Khan, with Asberger’s Syndrome, living in the San Francisco area and married to an Indian Hindu woman, who, post 9/11, sets off on a journey across the United States to tell the President, “My name is Khan, and I’m not a terrorist.” Filmed in lush settings in both India and the U.S., this high-budget production was a blockbuster both in India and abroad. For director Karan Johar, known for his highly successful glossy romantic dramas, such as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and …
A Social History Of Iranian Cinema (Farsi Translation), Kristian Petersen
A Social History Of Iranian Cinema (Farsi Translation), Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a Farsi translation of Kristian Petersen's book review of A Social History of Iranian Cinema by Hamid Naficy. The translation was done by Elham Rastegari.
"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland
"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland
Journal of Religion & Film
Historically, imprisoned Black male converts to Islam have been known for their narratives of redemption and struggles for religious freedom behind bars. While Islam possesses a strong visible presence throughout predominately Black areas of inner cities, it has become a natural feature of Black popular culture in mediums such as hip-hop, film, and literature. By the 1990s, the portrayal of Islamic conversions yielding Malcolm X-style transformations among young Black men, who formerly embodied self-destructiveness, were visible in films featuring Black male protagonists. The prison-based transformations typically involved highly influential Black Muslim leaders improving the social conditions of the inmate, the …
Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, And The Nation, Kathryn C. Hardy
Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, And The Nation, Kathryn C. Hardy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Andy Rotman, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).
Cries From Syria, John C. Lyden
Cries From Syria, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Cries from Syria (2017), directed by Evgeny Afineevsky.
A Social History Of Iranian Cinema, Kristian Petersen
A Social History Of Iranian Cinema, Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897-1941 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); A Social History of Iranian Cinema , Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941-1978 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011); A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978-1984 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012); and A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984-2010 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012), all by Hamid Naficy.
Philippine Muslims On Screen: From Villains To Heroes, Vivienne Angeles
Philippine Muslims On Screen: From Villains To Heroes, Vivienne Angeles
Journal of Religion & Film
Early portrayals of Philippine Muslims in film show them not only as a people who profess a “heathen religion” but also whose culture is dominated by notions of superiority and violence against women and non-Muslims. This presentation is largely due to the colonial legacies of Spain and the United States, whose respective occupation of the Philippines was met with resistance by Muslims. Such negative portrayals made their way into early films as indicated by Brides of Sulu (1934) and The Real Glory (1939). This paper argues that representations of Philippine Muslims in films changed over time, depending on the prevailing …
The Movie Mogul, Moses And Muslims: Islamic Elements In Cecil B. Demille’S The Ten Commandments (1956), Michael D. Calabria Ofm
The Movie Mogul, Moses And Muslims: Islamic Elements In Cecil B. Demille’S The Ten Commandments (1956), Michael D. Calabria Ofm
Journal of Religion & Film
Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 film, The Ten Commandments, has come to define the genre of the biblical epic. It has earned a permanent place in American culture due to its annual airing on television during the Easter and Passover holidays. Most viewers are unaware, however, that DeMille had sought to make a film that would appeal to Jews, Christians and Muslims at a time when their common Abrahamic ancestry had yet to be articulated, and interreligious dialogue was all but unheard of. To this end, Henry Noerdlinger, DeMille’s researcher for the film, consulted the Qur’an, and screenwriters incorporated Islamic …
Slamdance 2015, Kristian Petersen
Slamdance 2015, Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is an introduction to our coverage of the Slamdance 2015 Film Festival.
Across The Sea, Kristian Petersen
Across The Sea, Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Across the Sea (2015), directed by NIsan Dag and Esra Saydam.
Female Pervert, Kristian Petersen
Female Pervert, Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Film Pervert (2014), directed by Jiyoung Lee.
Tired Moonlight, Kristian Petersen
Tired Moonlight, Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Tired Moonlight (2015) directed by Britni West.
Birds Of Neptune, Kristian Petersen
Birds Of Neptune, Kristian Petersen
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Birds of Neptune (2015) directed by Stephen Richter.