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... of the Persians-it meant “foreign (not-us, and therefore infe- rior, uncivilized It is precisely this sense of barbarity which is played out so richly in Aladdin. Aladdin’s screenwriters “streamline the traditional Aladdin story into a contest between the boy and a towering vizier-wizard named Jafar...

... Iranian films, includingThe White Balloon (Badkonake sefid, dir. Jafar Panahi, 1995), Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye aseman, dir. Majid Majidi, 1997), and Chicken (Choori, dir. Javad Arkadani, 2001), to name only a few examples, is a highly skilled negotiator.19 Told by her mother and her...

... indebted to these groundbreaking papers on national cinemas. 8. An interesting instance of this is found in the much-acclaimed film by Jafar Panahi The White Balloon (1995), where the father and husband in the film is absent throughout the visual track...

...- inist” ideology. But, the more insistent, though virtually invisible, questionable “characters” are the Malaysian plant workers. Under the jurisdiction of Sander’s subordinates, Arthur Kahn (Michael Saskin) and Mohammed Jafar (Jesse Dizon), the Malaysian production line for highly...

... in Iran, such as Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Tahmineh Milani, and Samira Makhmalbaf, while male filmmakers, such as Jafar Panahi (The Circle [Dayereh, Iran/Switzerland/Italy, 2000] and Offside [Iran, 2006]) and Abbas Kiarostami (Ten [France/Iran/ US, 2002 have also explored...