The Gaze and a Sufi Ethics of Vision in Majidi’s The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, and the Real
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 dis...
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-35 |
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Beed-e majnoon
/ Blindness
/ Sight
/ Gaze
/ Voyeurism
/ Ethical conflict
/ Sufism
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Iranian Cinema
B Islamic Ethics B Majidi B Lacan B Feminist film theory B Sufism |
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